Emotions are running high… and it is getting more and difficult to understand the worldviews and behaviors of the other people in your life. At the very least, it's challenging to remain consistently ...
I recently came across a new (at least to me) term for social perspective-taking or theory of mind: mentalization. Midgley et al. (2017) use this terminology while working and writing in the ...
People regularly engage in sophisticated 'mentalizing' (i.e. guessing the intentions or beliefs of others) whenever they convince, teach, deceive, and so on. Researchers have now demonstrated the laws ...
Since the modern era of research on autism began in the 1980s, questions about social cognition and social brain development have been of central interest to researchers. This year marks the 20th ...
Twin studies have proven invaluable for teasing out the effects of both genetics and the environment on human biology. In a study published April 2 in Cell Reports, researchers studied pairs of twins ...
Twin studies have proven invaluable for teasing out the effects of both genetics and the environment on human biology. In a study published April 2 in Cell Reports, researchers studied pairs of twins ...
Findings reveal distinct neural networks for language and empathy in children, indicating these functions are independently ...