Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

The default mode network (DMN) is classically considered an 'intrinsic'system, specializing
in internally oriented cognitive processes such as daydreaming, reminiscing and future …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

As a consequence of lockdowns due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the
resulting restricted social mobility, several billion people worldwide have recently had to …

Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

The development of academic fields is often described through the metaphor of
'waves.'Following the instantiation of positive psychology (the first wave), scholarship …

Discoveries over the past two decades demonstrate that regions distributed throughout the
association cortex, often called the default network, are suppressed during tasks that …

Humans have the capacity, but perhaps not always the willingness, for great intelligence.
From global warming to the spread of misinformation and beyond, our species is facing …

Mentalizing is the capacity to understand others and oneself in terms of internal mental
states. It is assumed to be underpinned by four dimensions: automatic–controlled, internally …

Rumination is strongly and consistently correlated with depression. Although multiple
studies have explored the neural correlates of rumination, findings have been inconsistent …