A new study reports our cognitive flexibility in judging those who wrong us may shed light on both the human tendency to forgive, and explain why people hold on to those who continue to wrong them.
New study reveals women are better at mentalizing and picking up on subtle behavioral cues of others than men.
A new study reports dogs can correctly interpret cues from humans to help find food they can not see.
Expectant fathers with higher levels of brain activation and oxytocin later endorsed a more "child-led" empathetic style of parenting once their child was born.
After 14,000 years of domestication, dogs have an edge in both cognition and people-reading skills over wolves.
A capacity for empathy is key in sustaining cooperation between a social group. Findings reveal empathy can evolve through a process of social contagion.
Researchers say lying in childhood is normal and an important sign that a child's cognitive skills are developing.
Researchers identify brain areas associated with developing the ability to "put ourselves in other people's shoes".
Young children do not understand true or false belief, instead, they rely on perceptual access reasoning. The findings upend the longstanding belief that theory of mind is acquired by age four.
Researchers discover brain areas in primates exclusively dedicated to analyzing social interactions.
What is the earliest memory you can recall? How sure are you the event really happened? Researchers say our earliest memories are more likely to be fictional.
Study reveals two different brain structures are implicated in implicit and explicit theory of mind, and both regions mature at different ages to fulfill their function. The supramarginal gyrus matures earlier, enabling theory of mind to occur slightly earlier than believed. Full ability for theory of mind occurs at age four when the temporoparietal junction matures.
