We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

Here we provide a review of the animal and human literature concerning the role of the
amygdala in fear conditioning, considering its potential influence over autonomic and …

Neuroeconomics uses knowledge about brain mechanisms to inform economic analysis,
and roots economics in biology. It opens up the “black box” of the brain, much as …

There is at present limited understanding of the neurobiological basis of the different
processes underlying emotion perception. We have aimed to identify potential neural …

In this article, we discuss the hypothesis that affect is a fundamental, psychologically
irreducible property of the human mind. We begin by presenting historical perspectives on …

Evidence from pioneering animal research has suggested that the amygdala is involved in
the processing of aversive stimuli, particularly fear-related information. Fear is central in the …

We form first impressions from faces despite warnings not to do so. Moreover, there is
considerable agreement in our impressions, which carry significant social outcomes …

Immediate access to information about people that we encounter is an essential requirement
for effective social interactions. In this manuscript we briefly review our work and work of …

A wealth of animal data implicates the amygdala in aspects of emotional processing. In
recent years, functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have begun to refine …

What happens in the brain when you conjure up a mental image in your mind's eye? We
tested whether the particular regions of extrastriate cortex activated during mental imagery …