We tested whether processes that evoke agency interpretations and mental state attributions also lead to adoption of the actor’s visuo-spatial perspective in the observer. Agency and mental state interpretations were manipulated by showing different film clips involving two triangles (the Frith-Happé animations). Participants made speeded spatial decisions while watching these films. The respon...

Problems of cooperation are frequent among living organisms, but they difficult to solve. Humans have been able produce large-scale unrelated individuals through reputation systems. A challenging puzzle, however, is how can guide behavior if in most cases it not shared publicly and assigned others privately. We confirm that obtain agents playing the Prisoner’s Dilemma when reputations individua...

The specific innate modular theory of jealousy hypothesizes that natural selection shaped sexual jealousy as a mechanism to prevent cuckoldry, and emotional jealousy as a mechanism to prevent resource loss. Therefore, men should be primarily jealous over a mate's sexual infidelity and women over a mate's emotional infidelity. Five lines of evidence have been offered as support: self-report resp...