Social psychologists attempt to explain how we interact by appealing to basic principles of
how we think. To make good on this ambition, they are increasingly relying on an …

Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

The recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of reinforcement learning
(RL) models in social, cognitive and affective neuroscience. This approach, in combination …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

When people judge acts of kindness or cruelty, they often look beyond the act itself to infer
the agent's motives. These inferences, in turn, can powerfully influence moral judgements …

Highlights•RL models have been applied to study the neural underpinnings of social
learning.•Past work has largely found neural correlates of observable, reward-predictive …

The ability to learn about other people is crucial for human social functioning. Dopamine has
been proposed to regulate the precision of beliefs, but direct behavioural evidence of this is …

Observed variability and complexity of judgments of “right” and “wrong” cannot be readily
accounted for within extant approaches to understanding moral judgment. In response to …

Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to
benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that …