The involvement of dopamine within the nucleus accumbens in the formation and maintenance of pair bonds was assessed in a series of experiments using the monogamous prairie vole. We show that dopamine ...

A study challenges the long-held view that facial mimicry functions primarily as a social tool for politeness or empathy, ...

Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may ...

This article explores under what conditions an agent can derive a transitive all-things-considered preference from a plurality of non-comparable objectives, values or judgements mirroring her plural ...

Sexual attraction and the selective social attachments that often follow are two of the most powerful driving forces of human behavior, profoundly influencing art, music, literature and politics ...

Past research on policy subsystems has not attempted to explain the manner in which policy preferences for customary subsystem participants are formed as part of a system. The purpose of this research ...