Pride is a self-conscious emotion, comprised of two distinct facets known as authentic and
hubristic pride, and associated with a cross-culturally recognized nonverbal expression …

Gaze—where one looks, how long, and when—plays an essential part in human social
behavior. While many aspects of social gaze have been reviewed, there is no …

The pursuit of social rank is a recurrent and pervasive challenge faced by individuals in all
human societies. Yet, the precise means through which individuals compete for social …

Visual saliency models have enjoyed a big leap in performance in recent years, thanks to
advances in deep learning and large scale annotated data. Despite enormous effort and …

How do people distribute their visual attention in the natural environment? We and our
colleagues have usually addressed this question by showing pictures, photographs or …

Cultural evolution theory posits that a major factor in human ecological success is our high-
fidelity and selective social learning, which permits the accumulation of adaptive knowledge …

Social groups across species rapidly self-organize into hierarchies, where members vary in
their level of power, influence, skill, or dominance. In this review, we explore the nature of …

Ears cannot speak, lips cannot hear, but eyes can both signal and perceive. For human
beings, this dual function makes the eyes a remarkable tool for social interaction. For …

Cognitive neuroscientists often study social cognition by using simple but socially relevant
stimuli, such as schematic faces or images of other people. Whilst this research is valuable …

Social attention, or how spatial attention is allocated to biologically relevant stimuli, has
typically been studied using simplistic paradigms that do not provide any opportunity for …