Schmerz nervt, ist aber wichtig. Die Schmerzforscherin Susanne Becker erklärt, wie Schmerz funktioniert und wie wir ihn beeinflussen können.

Stress macht uns oft unfreundlich und aggressiv, aber auch großzügig und hilfsbereit. Diese beiden Reaktionen widersprechen sich nur scheinbar.

Social discounting describes the tendency to give fewer resources to those we feel less close to. Previous work suggests autistic individuals show a flatter dec...

Social deficits are a hallmark of schizophrenia, often characterized by impairments in processing and integrating socially transmitted information. However, translational models that accurately captur...

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Does stress make us more aggressive or more helpful? New research suggests it does both. This dual effect may drive growing societal polarization and the persistence of conflict.

Stress is known to affect social behavior, but how exactly it does so is still unclear. In the past, its effects were contradictory: stress has been linked to either more aggressive reactions (fight-o...

Why do violent conflicts between groups persist—even when all sides suffer as a result? Researchers from psychology and medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have now examined the dual effect of physiological stress messengers on social behavior in intergroup conflicts.

Why are we generous to some people but not to others? Which brain mechanisms govern our decision to be generous toward others? And how is the internal conflict between maximizing our own benefit and c...

Translational research suggests that the basolateral part of the amygdala (BLA) computes some of the core processes underlying social preferences, ...