Study reports significant reduction in gray matter volume in brain regions associated with social cognition for up to two years following birth.
Ubiquitous access to the internet may be altering the structure of our brains, as well as influencing our attentional capabilities, memory and social behaviors.
Study reveals women have higher activation in sensory areas of the brain associated with pain compared to males when witnessing another person suffering.
A new study sheds doubt on existing theories of ape social cognition. Researchers argue it is possible apes and humans are equally capable in some aspects of social cognition, such as social signaling. The study concludes it is essential to not just consider evolution, but also environmental factors when researching ape-human differences.
Mothers who reported higher levels of parental stress had less synchrony in brain activity with their young children than moms who were more stress-free. The findings shed new light on how parental stress can impact the mother-child relationship on a day-to-day basis.
A new study reports the preference for a child to cradle dolls on the left side have higher social cognitive ability than those with right cradling bias.
A new study reports two year old children and dogs show similar patterns of social intelligence, more so than human children and chimps.
A new study reports the oxytocin receptor plays a special role in the ability to remember faces.
A new study may provide clues as to how cooperative behavior could have evolved differently between men and women.
A new study investigates how our brains decide which news articles to read and share. Brain scans also help predict large scale virality of some posts.
Researchers discover the attractiveness of others can impact how much we lie and the extent to which others believe those misrepresentations of the truth.
Researchers shed light on how we are able to effectively form mental images of how objects look to other people.
