Learning about the world is critical to survival and success. In social animals, learning about
others is a necessary component of navigating the social world, ultimately contributing to …

People's beliefs about others are often impervious to new evidence: we continue to
cooperate with ingroup defectors and refuse to see outgroup enemies as rehabilitated …

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 …

Six experiments examine people's updating of blame judgments and test predictions
developed from a socially regulated blame perspective. According to this perspective, blame …

Research suggests that morality, sociability, and competence exert different effects on
impression formation and that morality forms the primary basis for the global evaluation of …

The contribution and neural basis of cognitive control is under-specified in many prominent
models of socio-cognitive processing. Important outstanding questions include whether …

Highlights•We review research on the psychological and neural basis of moral
cognition.•Moral cognition is widely distributed throughout the brain.•Social context …

Highlights•Computational modeling offers precise accounts of sociocognitive
mechanisms.•Models can reveal latent processes underlying neural and behavioral …

People experience instances of social feedback as interdependent with potential
implications for their entire self-concept. How do people maintain positivity and coherence …

Prior studies suggest that the cerebellum contributes to the prediction of action sequences
as well as the detection of social violations. In this dynamic causal modeling study, we …