How Does the Brain Infer Hidden Social Structures?. Issue 7 (July 2020) - Parkinson, Carolyn
Abstract : Many everyday thoughts and actions are shaped not only by our direct relationships with others, but also by our knowledge of relations between third-parties. Lau et al. recently demonstrated how knowledge of one type of social relation – interpersonal similarity – shapes cognition and behavior, and shed light on the neural basis of such phenomena.