The complex reward structure of the social world and the uncertainty endemic to social
contexts poses a challenge for modeling. For example, during social interactions, the actions …

We spontaneously attribute to strangers a wide variety of character traits based on their
facial appearance. While these first impressions have little or no basis in reality, they exert a …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

Two questions have motivated much of our research. What is the structure of social
judgments from faces and what is the perceptual basis of these judgments? Twelve years …

People evaluate a stranger's trustworthiness from their facial features in a fraction of a
second, despite common advice “not to judge a book by its cover.” Evaluations of …

Simple Summary Dogs are valued for their odor detection capabilities in a vast range of
fields. They help to find hidden and elusive targets, such as explosives, narcotics, missing …

Interactions with conspecifics are key to any social species. In order to navigate this social
world, it is crucial for individuals to learn from and about others. From learning new skills by …

Overgeneralization (ie, the transfer of fear to stimuli not related to an aversive event) is part
of alterations in associative fear learning in mental disorders. In the present experimental …

Highlights•Computational modeling offers precise accounts of sociocognitive
mechanisms.•Models can reveal latent processes underlying neural and behavioral …

Theoretical accounts propose honesty as a central determinant of trustworthiness
impressions and trusting behavior. However, behavioral and neural evidence on the …