Social cognition

Does inappropriate behaviour hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions
Embodied models suggest that moral judgments are strongly intertwined with first-hand somatic experiences, with some pointing to …
Gil Sharvit, Enru Lin, Patrik Vuilleumier, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Does inappropriate behaviour hurt or stink? The interplay between neural representations of somatic experiences and moral decisions
Atypical processing of social anticipation and feedback in borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by maladaptive social functioning, and widespread negativity biases. The neural …
Kimberly C. Doell, Emilie Olié, Philippe Courtet, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Nader Perroud, Sophie Schwartz
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Does my pain affect your disgust? Cross-modal influence of first-hand aversive experiences in the appraisal of others' facial expressions
Embodied models of social cognition argue that others’ affective states are processed by re-enacting a sensory-specific representation …
Lia Antico, Eugénie Cataldo, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Beyond unpleasantness. Social exclusion affects the experience of pain, but not of equally-unpleasant disgust
Seminal theories posit that social and physical suffering underlie partly-common representational code. It is unclear, however, if this …
Lia Antico, Amelie Guyon, Zainab K. Mohamed, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua
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Atypical processing of social anticipation and feedback in borderline personality disorder
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often engage in dangerous self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) as a maladaptive …
Emilie Olié, Kimberly C. Doell, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Philippe Courtet, Nader Perroud, Sophie Scwartz
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The good, the bad, and the suffering. Transient emotional episodes modulate the neural circuits of pain and empathy
People’s sensitivity to first-hand pain is affected by their ongoing emotions, with positive states (joy, amusement) exerting …
Emilie Qiao-Tasserit, Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Patrik Vuilleumier
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What determines social behavior? Investigating the role of emotions, self-centered motives, and social norms
In the last decade, a growing research effort in behavioral sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience, has been invested in the …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
The anterior insula (AI) and mid-anterior cingulate cortex (mACC) have repeatedly been implicated in first-hand and vicarious …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Anita Tusche, Patrik Vuilleumier, Tania Singer
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Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex
Cognitive and affective theory of mind share the same local patterns of activity in posterior temporal but not medial prefrontal cortex
Understanding emotions in others engages specific brain regions in temporal and medial prefrontal cortices. These activations are often …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Christoph Hofstetter, Patrik Vuilleumier
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Disentangling self- and fairness-related neural mechanisms involved in the ultimatum game: an fMRI study
Rejections of unfair offers in the ultimatum game (UG) are commonly assumed to reflect negative emotional arousal mediated by the …
Corrado Corradi˗Dell'Acqua, Claudia Civai, Raffaella I. Rumiati, Gereon R. Fink
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