The sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling of controlling one's own actions, and
through them, external events. The sense of agency is a byproduct of human movements …

Metacognition concerns the processes by which we monitor and control our own cognitive
processes. It can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing. Both …

The growth and popularity of online social networks has created a new world of
collaboration and communication. More than a billion individuals around the world are …

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved
in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example …

Collective emotions are at the heart of any society and become evident in gatherings,
crowds, or responses to widely salient events. However, they remain poorly understood and …

Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous
moral, legal, and social significance. When children were separated from their parents or …

Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups. In the media or on the street, we might hear
that a specific country has a moral duty to defend human rights, that environmentalists have …

Achieving cooperation between individuals is challenging and often driven by self-beneficial
motives. On the other hand, people also seem capable of subordinating their personal …

Cooperation and competition are two ways of social interaction keys to life in society. Recent
EEG-based hyperscanning studies reveal that cooperative and competitive interactions …

Plausibly, only moral agents can bear action-demanding duties. This places constraints on
which groups can bear action-demanding duties: only groups with sufficient structure—call …