Psychiatric and neurological disorders have historically provided key insights into the structure-function relationships that subserve human social cognition and behavior, informing the concept of the 'social brain'. In this review, we take stock of the current status of this concept, retaining a focus on disorders that impact social behavior. We discuss how the social brain, social cognition, ...

During recovery from social stress in a visible burrow system (VBS), during which a dominance hierarchy is formed among the males, rats display hyperphagia and gain weight preferentially as visceral adipose tissue. By proportionally increasing visceral adiposity, social stress may contribute to the establishment of metabolic disorder. Amylin was administered to rats fed ad libitum during recove...

This paper documents the culture-specific understanding of social capital among Haitians and examines its benefits and downsides in post-disaster shelter recovery following the 12 January 2010 earthquake. The case study of shelter recovery processes in three socioeconomically diverse communities (Pétion-Ville, Delmas and Canapé Vert) in Port-au-Prince suggests that social capital plays dual rol...

Abstract As robots become more prevalent, particularly in complex public and domestic settings, they will be increasingly challenged by dynamic situations that could result performance errors. Such errors can have a harmful impact on user’s trust confidence the technology, potentially reducing use preventing full realization of its benefits. A potential countermeasure, based social psychologica...

We investigate how to reconstruct social networks from voting data. In particular, given a voting model that considers social network structure, we aim to find the network that best explains the agents’ votes. We study two plausible voting models, one edge-centric and the other vertex-centric. For these models, we give algorithms and lower bounds, characterizing cases where network recovery is ...