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Frank Van Overwalle

Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Publications -  124
Citations -  7797

Frank Van Overwalle is an academic researcher from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Trait & Social cognition. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 110 publications receiving 6427 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank Van Overwalle include Ghent University Hospital.

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Social cognition and the brain: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The results suggest that inferring temporary states such as goals, intentions, and desires of other people-even when they are false and unjust from the authors' own perspective--strongly engages the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social cognition.
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Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: There seems, however, to be a transition from the mirror to the mentalizing system even when body-part motions are observed by perceivers who are consciously deliberating about the goals of others and their behavioral executions, such as when perceived body motions are contextually inconsistent, implausible or pretended.
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The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

David P. Schmitt, +123 more
TL;DR: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness as discussed by the authors.
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Social cognition and the cerebellum: a meta-analysis of over 350 fMRI studies.

TL;DR: An activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis reveals that the cerebellum is critically implicated in social cognition and that the areas of the cere Bellum which are consistently involved in social cognitive processes show extensive overlap with the areas involved in sensorimotor (during mirror and self-judgments tasks) as well as in executive functioning (across all tasks).
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Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs

David P. Schmitt, +130 more
TL;DR: In the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completed the RelationshipQuestionnaire (RQ), a self-report measure of adult romantic attachment as discussed by the authors.