PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article summarizes the cognitive and behavioral functions of
the prefrontal cortex with an emphasis on executive cognitive functions and the clinical …

An essential tension can be found between researchers interested in ecological validity and
those concerned with maintaining experimental control. Research in the human …

Risk perception is important in determining health-protective behavior. During the rise of the
COVID-19 epidemic, we tested a comprehensive structural equation model of risk …

The classroom is an emotional place. The countless hours students spend attending class,
completing projects, taking exams, and building social relationships translate into progress …

To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

Autonomy, defined as self-regulation and integration in acting, is central to healthy
psychological development and functioning. Classic organismic and dynamic theories have …

Behavioral and economic theories have long maintained that actions are chosen so as to
minimize demands for exertion or work, a principle sometimes referred to as the law of less …

Social proximity and interaction attenuate cardiovascular arousal, facilitate the development
of nonanxious temperament, inhibit the release of stress hormones, reduce threat‐related …

The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in human pavlovian threat
conditioning has been relegated largely to the extinction or reversal of previously acquired …