Human beings differ in their socioeconomic status (SES), with accompanying differences in
physical and mental health as well as cognitive ability. Although SES has long been used as …

Adolescence is a period of social, psychological and biological development. During
adolescence, relationships with others become more complex, peer relationships are …

The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test (Eyes Test) is a widely used assessment of “theory
of mind.” The NIMH Research Domain Criteria recommends it as one of two tests for …

Approximately 1 in 5 children in the United States lives in poverty, and> 40% of children are
poor or near-poor. 1 In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics added child poverty to its …

Paul DiMaggio's (1997) Annual Review of Sociology article urged integration of the
cognitive and the cultural, triggering a cognitive turn in cultural sociology. Since then, a …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Social relationships promote health and wellbeing. Brain regions regulating social behavior
continue to develop throughout adolescence, as teens learn to navigate their social …

Deciphering the neural mechanisms of social behavior has propelled the growth of social
neuroscience. The exact computations of the social brain, however, remain elusive. Here we …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

Social class reflects more than the material conditions of people's lives. Objective resources
(eg, income) shape cultural practices and behaviors that signal social class. These signals …