Lines of evidence coming from many branches of neuroscience indicate that anxiety
disorders arise from a dysfunction in the modulation of brain circuits which regulate …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

Determining the integrity of emotion recognition in autistic spectrum disorder is important to
our theoretical understanding of autism and to teaching social skills. Previous studies have …

Psychiatric and neurological disorders have historically provided key insights into the
structure-function relationships that subserve human social cognition and behavior …

How do our brains determine whether something is good or bad? How is this computational
goal implemented in biological systems? Given the critical importance of valence processing …

The notion that some people are more vulnerable to adversity as a function of inherent risk
characteristics is widely embraced in most fields of psychology. This is reflected in the …

It is obvious that emotions are real, but the question is what kind of “real” are they? In this
article, I outline a theoretical approach where emotions are a part of social reality. I propose …

The present meta-analysis aimed to clarify whether deficits in emotion recognition in
psychopathy are restricted to certain emotions and modalities or whether they are more …

Social homeostasis is the ability of individuals to detect the quantity and quality of social
contact, compare it to an established set-point in a command center, and adjust the effort …

There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the phenomenon of
empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning views, applying in varying …