The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of
science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to …

Learning about potential threats is critical for survival. Learned fear responses are acquired
either through direct experiences or indirectly through social transmission. Social fear …

In this report, we illustrate the considerable impact of researcher degrees of freedom with
respect to exclusion of participants in paradigms with a learning element. We illustrate this …

While there is no doubt that social signals affect human reinforcement learning, there is still
no consensus about how this process is computationally implemented. To address this …

What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the
sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved …

Empathy is crucial for our emotional experience and social interactions, and its
abnormalities manifest in various psychiatric disorders. Observational fear is a useful …

ABSTRACT Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are often associated with
stress and anxiety-related disorders in adulthood, and learning and memory deficits have …

Many fearful expectations are shaped by observation of aversive outcomes to others. Yet,
the neurochemistry regulating social learning is unknown. Previous research has shown that …

Empathy enables social mammals to recognize and share emotion with others and is well‐
documented in non‐human primates. During the past few years, systematic observations …

Empathy is an essential function for humans as social animals. Emotional contagion, the
basic form of afffective empathy, comprises the cognitive process of perceiving and sharing …