An increasing amount of research effort is being directed toward investigating the neural
bases of social cognition from a systems neuroscience perspective. Evidence from multiple …

The Default Mode Network (DMN) has been found to be involved in various domains of
cognitive and social processing. The present article will review brain connectivity results …

Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an
integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory attempts to provide a …

The dynamic interactions between the amygdala and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
are usefully conceptualized as a circuit that both allows us to react automatically to …

REVIEWS personality disorders tend to view themselves as incompetent; antisocial people
feel vulnerable; people with borderline personalities feel powerless and devalued while …

Cognitive abnormalities are a core feature of depression, and biases toward negatively
toned emotional information are common, but are they a cause or a consequence of …

The panoply of cognitive, affective, motivational, and social functions that underpin everyday
human experience requires precisely choreographed patterns of interaction between …

Background Cognitive models of depression suggest that major depression is characterized
by biased facial emotion processing, making facial stimuli particularly valuable for …

Objective Mindfulness meditation training has been previously shown to enhance
behavioral measures of executive control (eg, attention, working memory, cognitive control) …

Personality psychology seeks both to understand how individuals differ from one another in
behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition and to explain the causes of those differences …