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·February 28, 2012·4 min read

Study Shows How The Brain Responds To Deceptive Advertising

Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according...

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·October 6, 2015·4 min read

Understanding Thoughts of Others Enables Kids to Lie

Children who are taught to reason about the mental states of others are more likely to use deception to obtain a reward, researchers report.

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·October 13, 2015·5 min read

How the ‘Social Brain’ is Functionally Impaired in Autism

According to a new study, researchers have identified brain areas linked to social behaviors are insufficiently networked and underdeveloped in children with autism.

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·February 2, 2016·5 min read

Out of Sight Not Always Out of Mind, Especially for Ravens

Researchers report ravens share some human ability to think abstractly about other ravens, and adapt their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

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·February 15, 2016·8 min read

The God Brain: Roundtable Discussion on God and Spirituality for Brain Games

Is belief in God innate in our brains, as if it were installed by some divine programmer? Or is spirituality a more complex evolving adaptation that has both helped and harmed us as a species? National Geographic's Brain Games asks Neuroscience News.

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·October 6, 2016·5 min read

Apes Understand Some Things Are All in Your Head

Researchers reveal apes, like humans, have the ability to recognize that some beliefs may differ from reality.

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·March 27, 2017·4 min read

Brain Structure That Helps Us Understand What Others Think Revealed

Researchers identify brain areas associated with developing the ability to "put ourselves in other people's shoes".

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·April 3, 2017·4 min read

Area of the Brain Affected by Autism Detected

Researchers report the anterior cingulate cortex, an area of the brain associated with empathy, activates very weakly in people with autism.

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·April 8, 2017·6 min read

Dogs Can Adopt the Perspective of Humans

A new study reports dogs can correctly interpret cues from humans to help find food they can not see.

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·May 18, 2017·4 min read

Newly Discovered Brain Network Offers Clues to Social Cognition

Researchers discover brain areas in primates exclusively dedicated to analyzing social interactions.

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·June 29, 2017·4 min read

People Prove Adept at Predicting Emotional Transitions

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.