Bristol University researchers reveal strong circadian patterns for both negative and positive moods shared between Twitter users' Tweets.
Crowdsourced EEG study helps researchers approach questions about complex, real-life social cognition.
In order to make informed choices, rats replay past experiences, a new study reports.
Findings provide new evidence that autism is linked to lower empathy in the general population, and atypical empathy in ASD is not simply due to alexithymia, or emotional blindness. Researchers stress that the lack of empathy may not always be a negative quality.
A new study reports the oxytocin receptor plays a special role in the ability to remember faces.
A new study examines how the hormone oxytocin helps to mediate social interactions.
While it is easy for most of us to read the emotions of those around us at a given time, researchers suggest that people are also skilled at predicting future emotions in others, thanks to a mental model of emotional transitions.
Researchers shed light on how we are able to effectively form mental images of how objects look to other people.
Patients with schizophrenia show increased brain activity in central areas of the brain, but lower activity in the temporal sulcus when hearing metaphors.
A single dose of oxytocin can enhance brain activity while processing social information in children with autism, a new study reports.
A new study may provide clues as to how cooperative behavior could have evolved differently between men and women.
A new study reports researchers have identified certain spots dedicated to processing faces in the primate brain prefer faces with bodies.
