Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the amygdala is central to handling the demands
of complex social life in primates. In this paper, we synthesize extant anatomical and …

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 …

Social interactions involve complex decision-making tasks that are shaped by dynamic,
mutual feedback between participants. An open question is whether and how emergent …

Deciphering the neural mechanisms of social behavior has propelled the growth of social
neuroscience. The exact computations of the social brain, however, remain elusive. Here we …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

For humans, like many animal species, survival depends on effective social functioning.
Social skills facilitate our access to sustenance, protection and mates, and socially adept …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

Empathy accounts for the naturally occurring subjective experience of similarity between the
feelings expressed by self and others without loosing sight of whose feelings belong to …