Despite increasing empirical and theoretical work on empathy, particularly on the content of
empathic representations, there is a relative lack of consensus regarding the information …

Conduct disorder is a childhood behaviour disorder that is characterized by persistent
aggressive or antisocial behaviour that disrupts the child's environment and impairs his or …

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a
worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most …

Empathy is a lay term that is becoming increasingly viewed as a unitary function within the
field of cognitive neuroscience. In this paper, a selective review of the empathy literature is …

Objective Dysfunctions in both emotion regulation and social cognition (understanding
behavior in mental state terms, theory of mind or mentalizing) have been proposed as …

Background: Empathy dysfunction is one of the hallmarks of psychopathy, but it is also
sometimes thought to characterise autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Individuals with either …

Oxytocin, a peptide that functions as both a hormone and neurotransmitter, has broad
influences on social and emotional processing throughout the body and the brain. In this …

The term theory of mind (ToM) refers to the capacity to infer one's own and other persons'
mental states. A substantial body of research has highlighted the evolution of ToM in …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a profound lack of empathy.
Neuroscientists have associated empathy and its interindividual variation with how strongly …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the information that pregnant
women report receiving when being counseled about weight gain and the risks of …