The idea that social motivation deficits play a central role in Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) has recently gained increased interest. This constitutes a shift in autism research …

How does our brain choose the best course of action? Choices between material goods are
thought to be steered by neural value signals that encode the rewarding properties of the …

Social animals including humans share a range of social mechanisms that are automatic
and implicit and enable learning by observation. Learning from others includes imitation of …

To better understand the reward circuitry in human brain, we conducted activation likelihood
estimation (ALE) and parametric voxel-based meta-analyses (PVM) on 142 neuroimaging …

Given that we live in highly complex social environments, many of our most important
decisions are made in the context of social interactions. Simple but sophisticated tasks from …

Dual-system approaches to psychology explain the fundamental properties of human
judgment, decision making, and behavior across diverse domains. Yet, the appropriate …

The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary
history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological …

There is strong evidence that empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and
neurological underpinnings. Even the most advanced forms of empathy in humans are built …

This paper explores the effect of chatbot empathy and identity disclosure on willingness to
donate (WTD) to a fundraising project and the psychological mechanism in the relationship …

Social interactions involve complex exchanges of a variety of social signals, such as gaze,
facial expressions, speech and gestures. Focusing on the dual function of eye gaze, this …