Researchers have suggested that certain individuals may show a self-positivity bias, rating themselves as possessing more positive personality traits than others. Previous evidence has shown that people evaluate self-related information in such a way as to maintain or enhance self-esteem. However, whether self-esteem would modulate the time course of self-positivity bias in explicit self-evalua...

SCIENTIFIC FUNDAMENTALS A database can be seen as a model, i.e. as a simplified, abstract description, of an external reality. In the case of relational databases, one starts by choosing certain predicates of a prescribed arity. The schema of the database consists of this set of predicates, possibly attributes, which can be seen as names for the arguments of the predicates, together with an ind...

Belief reasoning is typical mental state reasoning in theory of mind (ToM). Although previous studies have explored the neural bases of belief reasoning, the neural correlates of belief reasoning for self and for others are rarely addressed. The decoupling mechanism of distinguishing the mental state of others from one's own is essential for ToM processing. To address the electrophysiological b...