Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the
canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics …

The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'-Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …

Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• The acclaimed social psychologist challenges
conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to …

Predictive coding posits that neural systems make forward-looking predictions about
incoming information. Neural signals contain information not about the currently perceived …

The prevailing orthodoxy in brain science is that since physical laws govern our physical
brains, physical laws therefore govern our behaviour and even our conscious selves. Free …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the amygdala is central to handling the demands
of complex social life in primates. In this paper, we synthesize extant anatomical and …

Given that we live in highly complex social environments, many of our most important
decisions are made in the context of social interactions. Simple but sophisticated tasks from …

Minimizing the costs that others impose upon oneself and upon those in whom one has a
fitness stake, such as kin and allies, is a key adaptive problem for many organisms. Our …