Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building
block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive …

Matching the timing of one's movements to the movements of others has been proposed to
increase affiliation and prosociality. Although coordinated movements facilitate early social …

Impairments in social interaction and communication are critical features of ASD but the
underlying processes are poorly understood. An under-explored area is the social motor …

Impairments in social interaction and communicating with others are core features of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), but the specific processes underlying such social competence …

Young children are thought to be motivated to avoid individuals who have been wrong in the
past so as to minimize the risk of being misinformed. Yet they sometimes act on testimony …

This chapter addresses child well-being from a psychological point of view. In doing so, we
need to remember that psychology is not one single discipline but distributed among …

Background Imitation deficits are prevalent in autism spectrum conditions (ASCs) and are
associated with core autistic traits. Imitating others' actions is central to the development of …

Background Delays in early social and executive function are predictive of later
developmental delays and eventual neurodevelopmental diagnoses. There is limited …

Many studies have shown that making children laugh enhances certain cognitive capacities
such as attention, motivation, perception and/or memory, which in turn enhance learning …