Empathy reflects the natural ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of
others, coupled with a motivation to care for their well-being. It has evolved in the context of …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

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 …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Although interest in the neurobiology of parent–infant bonding is a century old,
neuroimaging of the human parental brain is recent. After summarizing current comparative …

Why do people tend to care for upholding principles of justice? This study examined the
association between individual differences in the affective, motivational and cognitive …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Early mother–infant relationships play
important roles in infants' optimal development. New mothers undergo neurobiological …

Highlights•Empathy has evolved in the context of parental care and kinship relationships.•
Conserved neural circuits connecting brainstem, basal ganglia, insula and orbitofrontal …

Although a growing body of evidence suggests that giving to (hel**) others is linked
reliably to better health and longevity for the helper, little is known about causal …

The past decades have seen an explosion of studies on empathy in various academic
domains including affective neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and economics. However …