The inadequacy of a categorial approach to mental health diagnosis is now well-recognised,
with many authors, diagnostic manuals and funding bodies advocating a dimensional, trans …

When people observe one another, behavioural alignment can be detected at many levels,
from the physical to the mental. Likewise, when people process the same highly complex …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti …

Since the rise of cognitive psychology in the early 1970s,“social cognition” has become the
dominant concept in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to denote the processes …

The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader.
Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are …

In a classic theory, Durkheim (1912) predicted that because of the social sharing of emotion
they generate, collective gatherings bring participants to a stage of collective effervescence …

In his 1836 essay “Maelzel's Chess Player” Edgar Allan Poe attempted to expose the hoax
of a machine which, according to its owner, Johann Mälzel, could play chess against a …

A fundamental issue in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain encodes others' actions and
intentions. In recent years, a potential advance in our knowledge on this issue is the …