Humans often sacrifice material benefits to endorse or to oppose societal causes based on
moral beliefs. Charitable donation behavior, which has been the target of recent …

Moral cognitive neuroscience is an emerging field of research that focuses on the neural
basis of uniquely human forms of social cognition and behaviour. Recent functional imaging …

Reading daily newspaper articles often evokes opinions and social judgments about the
characters and stories. Social and moral judgments rely on the proper functioning of neural …

Humans are endowed with a natural sense of fairness that permeates social perceptions and
interactions. This moral stance is so ubiquitous that we may not notice it as a fundamental …

Data analysis workflows in many scientific domains have become increasingly complex and
flexible. Here we assess the effect of this flexibility on the results of functional magnetic …

Social concepts such as “tactless” or “honorable” enable us to describe our own as well as
others' social behaviors. The prevailing view is that this abstract social semantic knowledge is …

Recent investigations in cognitive neuroscience have shown that ordinary human behavior
is guided by emotions that are uniquely human in their experiential and interpersonal aspects…

Trust is a critical social process that helps us to cooperate with others and is present to some
degree in all human interaction. However, the underlying brain mechanisms of conditional …

The investigation of the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying the moral mind is of
paramount importance for understanding complex human behaviors, from altruism to …

Morality has been at the center of informal talks and metaphysical discussions since the
beginning of history. Recently, converging lines of evidence from evolutionary biology, …