The empathy concept has central significance for social and personality psychology and in
many other domains, including neuroscience, clinical/abnormal psychology, and the health …

Experiences of social rejection, exclusion or loss are generally considered to be some of the
most'painful'experiences that we endure. Indeed, many of us go to great lengths to avoid …

On Facebook, users are exposed to posts from both strong and weak ties. Even though
several studies have examined the emotional consequences of using Facebook, less …

Humans have the capacity to share others' emotions, be they positive or negative. Elicited by
the observed or imagined emotion of another person, an observer develops a similar …

While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the
notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap …

How does online technology affect sociability? Emerging evidence—much of it inconclusive—
suggests a nuanced relationship between use of online technology (the Internet, social …

Social exclusion refers to the experience of being disregarded or rejected by others and has
wide-ranging negative consequences for well-being and cognition. Cyberball, a game …

Given the recent surge in functional neuroimaging studies on social exclusion, the current
study employed activation likelihood estimation (ALE) based meta-analyses to identify brain …

Empathy is a fundamental component of our social-emotional experience. Over the last
decade, there has been increased interest in understanding the effects of acute stress on …

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events.
Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to …