Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it
remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the …

Shared attention is extremely common. In stadiums, public squares, and private living
rooms, people attend to the world with others. Humans do so across all sensory modalities …

In two studies, we found that sharing an experience with another person, without
communicating, amplifies one's experience. Both pleasant and unpleasant experiences …

As we increasingly integrate technology into our lives, we need a better framework for
understanding social interactions across the communication landscape. Utilizing survey …

Humans are ultrasocial, yet, theories of cognition have often been occupied with the solitary
mind. Over the past decade, an increasing volume of work has revealed how individual …

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events.
Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to …

There has recently been interest in the ways in which coordinated movements encourage
coactors to feel socially closer to one another, but this has generally overlooked the …

The idea that group contexts can intensify emotions is centuries old. Yet, evidence that
speaks to how, or if, emotions become more intense in groups remains elusive. Here we …

Sharing an experience with another person can amplify that experience. Here, we propose
for the first time that amplification is moderated by the psychological distance between co …

The study of observational learning, or learning from others, is a cornerstone of the
behavioral sciences, because it grounds the continuity, diversity, and innovation inherent to …