Understanding Theory of Mind should begin with an analysis of the problems it solves. The
traditional answer is that Theory of Mind is used for predicting others' thoughts and actions …

Learning the value of stimuli and actions from others—social learning—adaptively
contributes to individual survival and plays a key role in cultural evolution. We review …

Do acts of kindness improve the well-being of the actor? Recent advances in the
behavioural sciences have provided a number of explanations of human social, cooperative …

We meta-analyzed imaging studies on theory of mind and formed individual task groups
based on stimuli and instructions. Overlap in brain activation between all task groups was …

Social cognition broadly refers to the processing of social information in the brain that
underlies abilities such as the detection of others' emotions and responding appropriately to …

We review the idea that Theory of Mind—our ability to reason about other people's mental
states—can be formalized as inverse reinforcement learning. Under this framework …

This paper reviews and synthesizes functional imaging research that over the past decade
has begun to offer new insights into the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation …

What is morality, where does it come from, and how does it work? Scholars have struggled
with these questions for millennia. But we now have a scientific answer. The theory of …

Mind perception entails ascribing mental capacities to other entities, whereas moral
judgment entails labeling entities as good or bad or actions as right or wrong. We suggest …

Understanding the brain requires us to answer both what the brain does, and how it does it.
Using a series of examples, I make the case that behavior is often more useful than …