Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

The ability to behave in ways that benefit other individuals' well-being is among the most
celebrated human characteristics crucial for social cohesiveness. Across mammalian …

How does our brain choose the best course of action? Choices between material goods are
thought to be steered by neural value signals that encode the rewarding properties of the …

Proactive, that is, unsolicited, prosociality is a key component of our hyper-cooperation,
which in turn has enabled the emergence of various uniquely human traits, including …

Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making
decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different …

The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

Human social interaction is strongly shaped by other-regarding preferences, that is, a
concern for the welfare of others. These preferences are important for a unique aspect of …

Despite sharing a recent common ancestor, humans are surprisingly different from other
great apes. The most obvious discontinuities are related to our cognitive abilities, including …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …