Activity in a network of areas spanning the superior temporal sulcus, dorsomedial frontal
cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex is concerned with how nonhuman primates negotiate …

Social interaction is thought to provide a selection pressure for human intelligence, yet little
is known about its neurobiological basis and evolution throughout the primate lineage …

A number of domestication hypotheses suggest that dogs have acquired a more tolerant
temperament than wolves, promoting cooperative interactions with humans and …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …

What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing,
we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms …

To answer tantalizing questions such as whether animals are moral or how morality evolved,
I propose starting with a somewhat less fraught question: do animals have normative …

There is a new associative learning paradox. The power of associative learning for
producing flexible behaviour in non-human animals is downplayed or ignored by …

From an early age, humans exhibit a tendency to identify, adopt, and enforce the norms of
their local communities. Norms are the social rules that mark out what is appropriate …

Operating rooms (ORs) are inhabited by hierarchical, mixed-gender clinical teams that are
often prone to conflict. In evolutionary terms, one expects more within-than between-gender …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …