1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

3Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

Corresponding Author:Oscar Ybarra, University of Michigan, 3006 East Hall, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Email: [email protected]

Oscar Ybarra is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. His research examines how social factors (interpersonal, group, organizational) influence general cognition, decision making, and behavioral flexibility and creativity. His work draws on the methods of social and cognitive psychology.

Piotr Winkielman is a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego. His work explores the interplay between emotion, cognition, and embodiment, and draws on methods of social and cognitive psychology as well as social neuroscience.

Irene Yeh is a PhD student in social psychology and social work at the University of Michigan. She is interested in emotion, intergroup relations, and intergroup dialogue.

Eugene Burnstein is professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and lecturer at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of Warsaw. His research examines interpersonal phenomena such as altruism, cooperation and trust from an evolutionary perspective.

Liam Kavanagh is a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego. His work focuses on the cognitive stimulation derived from social interaction, emotional aspects of embodiment, mimicry and social inference, and processing fluency. Before returning to academia, he worked for three years each in New York and Tanzania as a researcher on a variety of national-level economic and social issues.