The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

The inconsistent definition of empathy has had a negative impact on both research and
practice. The aim of this article is to review and critically appraise a range of definitions of …

Social animals including humans share a range of social mechanisms that are automatic
and implicit and enable learning by observation. Learning from others includes imitation of …

Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

Variations in neural circuitry, inherited or acquired, may underlie important individual
differences in thought, feeling, and action patterns. Here, we used task-free connectivity …

Metacognition concerns the processes by which we monitor and control our own cognitive
processes. It can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing. Both …

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 …

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro
Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human …

Mice experiencing repeated aggression develop a long-lasting aversion to social contact,
which can be normalized by chronic, but not acute, administration of antidepressant. Using …

Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work …