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 …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

We meta-analyzed imaging studies on theory of mind and formed individual task groups
based on stimuli and instructions. Overlap in brain activation between all task groups was …

To predict and explain the behavior of others, one must understand that their actions are
determined not by reality but by their beliefs about reality. Classically, children come to …

Usage of the term 'theory of mind'(ToM) has exploded across fields ranging from
developmental psychology to social neuroscience and psychiatry research. However, its …

Social cognition depends on our capacity for 'mentalizing', or explaining an agent's
behaviour in terms of their mental states. The development and neural substrates of …

Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

The last decade has witnessed enormous growth in the neuroscience of empathy. Here, we
survey research in this domain with an eye toward evaluating its strengths and weaknesses …