When people observe one another, behavioural alignment can be detected at many levels,
from the physical to the mental. Likewise, when people process the same highly complex …

Cognition materializes in an interpersonal space. The emergence of complex behaviors
requires the coordination of actions among individuals according to a shared set of rules …

How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in
distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this …

Spontaneous mimicry appears fundamental to emotional perception and contagion,
especially when it involves facial emotional expressions. Here we cover recent evidence on …

Economic experiments have shown that punishment can increase public goods game
contributions over time. However, the effectiveness of punishment is challenged by second …

To successfully navigate their social world, humans need to understand and map enduring
relationships between people: Humans need a concept of social affiliation. Here I propose …

According to the prevailing paradigm in social-cognitive neuroscience, the mental states of
individuals become shared when they adapt to each other in the pursuit of a shared goal …

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events.
Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to …

The term apraxia refers to 'higher level'disorders of motor control. Apraxia differs from other
motor symptoms of unilateral brain damage by the bilaterality of symptoms following …

“A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human
behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political …