Health and wellness have become a cultural focus in Western countries, with weight-
management highlighted as imperative for wellbeing. This focus is clearly represented on …

FIGURE 1 AND COVER. Recent studies have begun to explore how the underlying
neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be affected by the nature of the …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Pride, shame, and guilt color our highest and lowest personal moments. Recent evidence
suggests that these self-conscious emotions are neurocognitive adaptations crafted by …

An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for
agency, virtue, and decision making. In The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a …

Extant cognitive behavioral models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) have primarily focused
on cognitions and behaviors that maintain the disorder. Emotional aspects of SAD have …

Existing empirical findings are inconsistent on the correlations of shame and guilt with
posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). This study aimed to quantitatively summarize the …

Little is known about the psychological processes through which people connect to nature.
From social psychology, we know that emotions play an essential role when connecting to …

Mammalian social interactions are orchestrated by a wide array of neural circuits. While
some aspects of social behaviors are driven by subcortical circuits, and are considered to be …

Moral motivations drive humans to sacrifice selfish needs to serve the needs of others and
internalized sociocultural norms. Over the past two decades, several brain regions have …