Impairments in cognitive flexibility have been used to characterize the neuropsychological
presentation of persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Previous studies have …

Empathy is a highly flexible and adaptive process that allows for the interplay of prosocial
behavior in many different social contexts. Empathy appears to be a very situated cognitive …

Research on sex differences in empathy has revealed mixed findings. Whereas
experimental and neuropsychological measures show no consistent sex effect, self-report …

Guided by indirect evidence, recent approaches propose a tripartite crosstalk among
interoceptive signaling, emotional regulation, and low-level social cognition. Here we …

Intentional harms are typically judged to be morally worse than accidental harms.
Distinguishing between intentional harms and accidents depends on the capacity for mental …

Loss of empathy is an early central symptom and diagnostic criterion of the behavioral
variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Although changes in empathy are evident and …

Eye movements during false-belief tasks can reveal an individual's capacity to implicitly
monitor others' mental states (theory of mind–ToM). It has been suggested, based on the …

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice is the first book to offer
an in-depth, comprehensive, and clinically applicable analysis of executive functioning (EF) …

The activity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been related to decisionmaking
(Gehring and Willoughby, 2002; Sanfey et al., 2003; Mulert et al., 2008), socially-driven …

Recursive social decision-making requires the use of flexible, context-sensitive long-term
strategies for negotiation. To succeed in social bargaining, participants' own perspectives …