This meta-analysis of 28 data sets (N= 705 older adults, N= 962 younger adults) examined
age differences in emotion recognition across four modalities: faces, voices, bodies/contexts …

Social cognition concerns the various psychological processes that enable individuals to
take advantage of being part of a social group. Of major importance to social cognition are …

Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental
states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self …

We performed an updated quantitative meta-analysis of 162 neuroimaging studies of
emotion using a novel multi-level kernel-based approach, focusing on locating brain regions …

Major depressive disorder has been associated with volumetric abnormality in the
amygdala. In this meta-analysis we examine results from magnetic resonance imaging …

Abstract The Montreal Affective Voices consist of 90 nonverbal affect bursts corresponding to
the emotions of anger, disgust, fear, pain, sadness, surprise, happiness, and pleasure (plus …

Three experiments were conducted in order to validate 56 musical excerpts that conveyed
four intended emotions (happiness, sadness, threat and peacefulness). In Experiment 1, the …

Successful decision making in a social setting depends on our ability to understand the
intentions, emotions and beliefs of others. The mirror system allows us to understand other …

Emotion Science is a state-of-the-art introduction to the study of emotion. Drawing on an
extraordinarily wide array of research from psychology and neuroscience, the author …

The current paper examines the functional contributions of the amygdala and ventromedial
prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the evidence that the functioning of these systems is …