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 …

In academic and public life empathy is seen as a fundamental force of morality–a
psychological phenomenon, rooted in biology, with profound effects in law, policy, and …

Observational learning is a powerful survival tool allowing individuals to learn about threat-
predictive stimuli without directly experiencing the pairing of the predictive cue and …

How do the emotions of others affect us? The human anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
responds while experiencing pain in the self and witnessing pain in others, but the …

The Norway rat has important impacts on our life. They are amongst the most used research
subjects, resulting in ground-breaking advances. At the same time, wild rats live in close …

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 …

The empathic ability to vicariously experience the other's fearful situation, a process called
observational fear (OF), is critical to survive in nature and function in society. OF can be …

Empathy for another's physical pain has been demonstrated in humans [1] and mice [2]; in
both species, empathy is stronger between familiars. Stress levels in stranger dyads are …

Social behavior encompasses a number of distinctive and complex constructs that form the
core elements of human imitative culture, mainly represented as either affiliative or …

Hel** behavior is a prosocial behavior whereby an individual helps another irrespective of
disadvantages to him or herself. In the present study, we examined whether rats would help …