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 …

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—
determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other …

Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to
promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than …

We used Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to simultaneously measure brain activity in two
people while they played a computer-based cooperation game side by side. Inter-brain …

This study investigated interactive exchange in lovers and the associated interpersonal
brain synchronization (IBS) using functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)‐based …

Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from two independent
samples of healthy adults, we parsed the amygdala's intrinsic connectivity into three partially …

This study investigated how cooperative and competitive interaction modes affect the group
creative performance. The participants were recruited as dyads to solve 2 problems either …

This study aimed to investigate which type of group (eg, consisting of less-creative or highly-
creative individuals) would perform better in solving creativity problems, and explore the …

Research has shown that the brain is constantly making predictions about future events.
Theories of prediction in perception, action and learning suggest that the brain serves to …