Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported …

In this article, we provide a review of the latest research on behavioral and cognitive
strategies that cultivate resilience and change the brain. We begin with a primer on the …

Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

Although research has identified dozens of behavioral and psychosocial strategies for
boosting resilience in adults, little is known about the common underlying pathways. A …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

In response to uncovering brain mechanisms underlying vocal communication and
searching for biomarkers for mental illnesses, speech prosody has been increasingly …

The science of emotion is muddled with a multitude of hypotheses and assumptions about
what emotions are and how they work. The standard narrative framework used in the …

Background The development of adaptive implicit and explicit emotion regulation skills is
crucial for mental health. Adolescence and emerging adulthood are periods of heightened …