Renate L. E. P. Reniers

TL;DR: The hypothesized 2-factor structure (cognitive and affective empathy) was tested and provided the best and most parsimonious fit to the data.

TL;DR: Investigation of the influence of personality characteristics and gender on adolescents’ perception of risk and their risk-taking behaviour identified a model in which age, behavioural inhibition and impulsiveness directly influenced risk perception, while age, social anxiety, impulsiveness, sensitivity to reward, behavioural inhibited and risk perception itself were directly or indirectly associated with risk- taking behaviour.

TL;DR: It is suggested that moral decision- making entails a greater degree of internally directed processing, such as self-referential mental processing and the representation of intentions and feelings, than non-moral decision-making.

TL;DR: It is possible that aberrant activity within the DMN and SN complex may be directly linked to impaired salience appraisal of internal activity and AVH generation, and decreased intrinsic functional connectivity between the claustrum and the insula may lead to compensatory over activity in parts of the auditory network.

TL;DR: Although there is some support for the staging model in affective disorders, conclusions are limited by the large variability in the clinical samples studied, and it is suggested that future research needs to take a transdiagnostic and longitudinal approach.