Social animals must detect, evaluate and respond to the emotional states of other
individuals in their group. A constellation of gestures, vocalizations, and chemosignals …

Making decisions is an integral part of everyday life. Social psychologists have
demonstrated in many studies that humans' decisions are frequently and strongly influenced …

Recent studies have begun to elucidate the roles played in social cognition by specific
neural structures, genes, and neurotransmitter systems. Cortical regions in the temporal lobe …

Highlights•The neural mechanisms of social cognition are conserved across vertebrate
evolution.•Teleost fishes provide insight into cognition in mate preference …

We live in a world that is largely socially constructed, and we are constantly involved in and
fundamentally influenced by a broad array of complex social interactions. Social behaviors …

Studies in the field of social neuroscience have recently made use of computational models
of decision-making to provide new insights into how we learn about the self and others …

Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and
perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli. A …

Neural research on social cognition has not examined motivations known to influence social
cognition. One fundamental motivation in social cognition is positivity motivation, that is, the …

The social environment presents the human brain with the most complex information
processing demands. The computations that the brain must perform occur in parallel …

Whether on a first date or during a team briefing at work, people's daily lives are inundated
with social information, and in recent years, researchers have begun studying the neural …