Theoretical accounts typically posit that variability in social behaviour is a function of
capacity limits. We argue that many social behaviours are goal-directed and effortful, and …

Antisocial behaviours such as disobedience, lying, stealing, destruction of property, and
aggression towards others are common to multiple disorders of childhood and adulthood …

Empathy is widely regarded as relevant to a diverse range of psychopathological constructs,
such as autism spectrum disorder, psychopathy, and borderline personality disorder …

This study investigated the links between theory of mind, social motivation, and children's
social competence in middle childhood and early adolescence. Two hundred and sixty four …

Theories on empathy have argued that feeling empathy for others is related to accurate
recognition of their emotions. Previous research that tested this assumption, however, has …

Social cohesion relies on prosociality in increasingly aging populations. Helping other
people requires effort, yet how willing people are to exert effort to benefit themselves and …

Individual differences in empathy can have positive and negative psychological outcomes.
Yet, individual differences in the processing and regulation of empathy-induced emotion …

Reinforcement learning is a fundamental mechanism displayed by many species. However,
adaptive behaviour depends not only on learning about actions and outcomes that affect …

Prosocial behaviors—actions that benefit others—are central to individual and societal well-
being. Although the mechanisms underlying the financial and moral costs of prosocial …

Individuals vary in emotion recognition ability (ERA), but the causes and correlates of this
variability are not well understood. Previous studies have largely focused on unimodal facial …