Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience

The literature on health care disparities among U.S. minority men remains limited, and post-pandemic changes in the health care delivery system may uniquely affect this p [...]

Background: Various affective disorders are linked with enhanced processing of unpleasant stimuli. However, this link is likely a result of the dominant negative mood [...]

Background: The ability to integrate contextual information with social cues to generate social meaning is a key aspect of social cognition. It is widely accepted that [...]

Social relationships endow health and fitness benefits, but considerable variation exists in the extent to which individuals form and maintain salutary social relation [...]

Emotionally expressive faces are processed by a distributed network of interacting sub-cortical and cortical brain regions. The components of this network have been id [...]

Background: Recent neuroscientific evidence suggests that empathy for pain activates similar neural representations as the first-hand experience of pain. However, empa [...]

Social connections are essential for the survival of a social species like humans. People differ in the degree to which they are sensitive to perceived deficits in the [...]

A growing body of behavioral studies has demonstrated that women’s hemispheric specialization varies as a function of their menstrual cycle, with hemispheric specializ [...]

Previous research has linked perceived social isolation (loneliness) to reduced antiviral immunity, but the immunologic effects of the objective social isolation imposed [...]

Background: Psychologically, females are usually thought to be superior in interpersonal sensitivity than males. The human mirror-neuron system is considered to provid [...]

Loneliness is thought to serve as an adaptive signal indicating the need to repair or replace salutary social connections. Accordingly, loneliness may influence preferenc [...]