Substance dependence is a prevalent and urgent public health problem. In 2021, 60 million
Americans reported abusing alcohol within the month prior to being surveyed, and nearly 20 …

Increasing evidence suggests that mental health and physical health are linked by neural
systems that jointly regulate somatic physiology and high-level cognition. Key systems …

Virtual Reality (VR) has been increasingly referred to as the “ultimate empathy machine”
since it allows users to experience any situation from any point of view. However, empirical …

Social evaluation occurs at personal, interpersonal, group, and intergroup levels, with
competing theories and evidence. Five models engage in adversarial collaboration, to …

Two dimensions persist in social cognition when people are making sense of individuals or
groups. The stereotype content model (SCM) terms these two basic dimensions perceived …

Virtual Reality (VR) has been touted as an effective empathy intervention, with its most
ardent supporters claiming it is “the ultimate empathy machine.” We aimed to determine …

Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

Dehumanization is a central concept in the study of intergroup relations. Yet although
theoretical and methodological advances in subtle,“everyday” dehumanization have …

The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …