Mentalizing is the capacity to understand others and oneself in terms of internal mental
states. It is assumed to be underpinned by four dimensions: automatic–controlled, internally�…

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with
that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this�…

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of�…

The term “toxic stress” refers to a wide array of biological changes that occur at the
molecular, cellular, and behavioral levels when there is prolonged or significant adversity in�…

Resilience–a key topic in clinical science and practice–still lacks a clear conceptualization
that integrates its evolutionary and human‐specific features, refrains from exclusive focus on�…

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions�…

The evolution of humans as a highly social species tuned the brain to the social world; yet
the mechanisms by which humans coordinate their brain response online during social�…

It is well known that affective and pleasant touch promotes individual well-being and
facilitates affiliative social communication, although the neural circuit that mediates this�…

This chapter shows that fathers and families are embedded in a network of biological and
neurological systems, and the biological basis of fathering. There are overall differences in�…

Interpersonal synchrony, the temporal coordination of actions, emotions, thoughts and
physiological processes, is a widely studied ubiquitous phenomenon. Research has already�…