Forms and functions of the self-conscious emotions

D Sznycer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019‏ - cell.com
Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

How inferred motives shape moral judgements

RW Carlson, YE Bigman, K Gray… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
When people judge acts of kindness or cruelty, they often look beyond the act itself to infer
the agent's motives. These inferences, in turn, can powerfully influence moral judgements …

The MAD model of moral contagion: The role of motivation, attention, and design in the spread of moralized content online

WJ Brady, MJ Crockett… - … on Psychological Science, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for
moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence …

Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices

L Zhang, L Lengersdorff, N Mikus… - Social Cognitive and …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
The recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of reinforcement learning
(RL) models in social, cognitive and affective neuroscience. This approach, in combination …

Above and beyond the concrete: The diverse representational substrates of the predictive brain

M Gilead, Y Trope, N Liberman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Computational social psychology

F Cushman - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Social psychologists attempt to explain how we interact by appealing to basic principles of
how we think. To make good on this ambition, they are increasingly relying on an …

Moral judgment as categorization (MJAC)

C McHugh, M McGann, ER Igou… - Perspectives on …, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Observed variability and complexity of judgments of “right” and “wrong” cannot be readily
accounted for within extant approaches to understanding moral judgment. In response to …

Learning from other minds: An optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning

N Vélez, H Gweon - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•RL models have been applied to study the neural underpinnings of social
learning.•Past work has largely found neural correlates of observable, reward-predictive …

A levels-of-analysis framework for studying social emotions

H Yu, X Gao, B Shen, Y Hu, X Zhou - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024‏ - nature.com
Social emotions such as guilt and gratitude serve adaptive functions critical to social
interactions and relationships. Therefore, an ecologically valid approach to studying the …

Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists

SA Rhoads, KM Vekaria, K O'Connell… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to
benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that …