Neuroscience

"The neuroanatomy of autism is truly multidimensional, and affects multiple and most likely independent cortical features. The spatial patterns detected using SVM may help further exploration of the specific genetic...

"This essay considers how social conflict emerges, the ways in which it can be managed and the functions it performs. .. Conflict can have both negative and positive influences for teams...

"Oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups.   Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Lindred...

"...testosterone in women increased fair bargaining behaviour, reducing conflicts and increasing social efficiency. However, subjects who believed they'd received testosterone - regardless of whether they actually did - behaved much more unfairly than...

"We survey research on steroid hormones and their cognitive effects, and examine potential links to trader performance in financial markets. Preliminary findings suggest that cortisol codes for risk and testosterone...

"People in powerful positions who reject the idea that exercising their power changes their brain’s neurobiology would do well to reflect on Zeki’s work illustrating the vulnerability of brain chemistry to...

".. authors have used retrospective analysis to describe preclinical linguistic decline in written texts and spoken language samples. This paper reviews the methods available for classifying and comparing such samples, and presents...

"Qualities often associated with successful leadership can also be marked by impetuosity, a refusal to listen to or take advice and a particular form of incompetence when impulsivity, recklessness and frequent...

"..a trader’s morning testosterone level predicts his day’s profitability. We also found that a trader’s cortisol rises with both the variance of his trading results and the volatility of the...

"People feeling authentic pride are more likely to score high on extraversion, agreeableness, genuine self-esteem and conscientiousness. However, those feeling hubristic pride are more narcissistic and prone to shame.  ...