Two decades of social neuroscience and neuroeconomics research illustrate the brain
mechanisms that are engaged when people consider human beings, often in comparison to …

Social evaluative feedback informs the receiver of the other's views, which may contain
judgments of personality-related traits and/or the level of likability. Such kinds of social …

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is engaged in various types of semantic dimensions. One
consistently reported dimension is social information, with abstract words describing social …

Social feedback from parents has a profound impact on the development of a child's self-
concept. Yet, little is known about adolescents' affective and neural responses to parental …

Highlights•People tend to ascribe agency to embodied AI.•Only humans trigger the
attribution of both agency and experience.•People are most likely to attribute mind to AI that …

Humans are highly co‐operative and thus cognitively, affectively, and motivationally tuned to
pursue shared goals. Yet, cooperative tasks typically require people to constantly take and …

Recent findings suggest that communicative context affects the timing and magnitude of
emotion effects in word processing. In particular, social attributions seem to be one important …

In the age of virtual communication, the source of a message is often inferred rather than
perceived, raising the question of how sender attributions affect content processing. We …

Social feedback, such as praise or critique, profoundly impacts our mood and social
interactions. It is unknown, however, how parents experience praise and critique about their …

Encoding often occurs in social contexts, yet research has hardly addressed their role in
verbal memory. In three experiments, we investigated the behavioral and neural effects of …