Social emotions such as guilt and gratitude serve adaptive functions critical to social
interactions and relationships. Therefore, an ecologically valid approach to studying the …

Action monitoring allows the swift detection of conflicts, errors, and the rapid evaluation of
outcomes. These processes are crucial for learning, adaptive behavior, and for the …

People may deny responsibility for negative consequences of their actions by claiming that
they were" only obeying orders." The" Nuremberg defense" offers one extreme example …

Instructions, suggestions, and other types of social information can have powerful effects on
pain and emotion. Prominent examples include observational learning, social influence …

People learn about their self from social information, and recent work suggests that healthy
adults show a positive bias for learning self-related information. In contrast, social anxiety …

Receiving a favor from another person may induce a negative feeling of indebtedness for
the beneficiary. In this study, we explore these hidden costs by develo** and validating a …

Human–robot interactions are often affected by error situations that are caused by either the
robot or the human. Therefore, robots would profit from the ability to recognize when error …

Witnessing another person's suffering elicits vicarious brain activity in areas that are active
when we ourselves are in pain. Whether this activity influences prosocial behavior remains …

Recent evidence suggests that multisensory integration of bodily signals involving
exteroceptive and interoceptive information modulates bodily aspects of self-consciousness …

People feel bad for inflicting harms upon others; this emotional state is termed interpersonal
guilt. In this study, the participant played multiple rounds of a dot-estimation task with …