Tag Archives: social neuroscience

Culture in social neuroscience: A review

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

The aim of this review is to highlight an emerging field: the neuroscience of culture. This new field links cross-cultural psychology with cognitive neuroscience across fundamental domains of cognitive and social psychology. We present a summary of studies on emotion, … Continue reading →

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Social Neuroscience – Key Readings

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of perception, imagery, attention, and memory. Many aspects … Continue reading →

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Decision-making and Social Neurocognition during Adolescence

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Adolescents show a tendency to engage in risky activities, such as dangerous driving and unsafe sex. This has led to the suggestion that adolescents are poor decisionmakers, and are risk-seeking in general. The first two chapters of this thesis describe … Continue reading →

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Tackling the Social Cognition Paradox through Multi-scale Approaches

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Recent debates regarding the primacy of social interaction versus individual cognition appear to be caused by the lack of an integrative account of the multiple scales at play. We suggest that reconciling individual autonomy and dyadic interactive viewpoints requires the … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Challenges and Directions for Social Neuroscience

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Social neuroscience has been enormously successful and is making major contributions to fields ranging from psychiatry to economics. Yet deep and interesting conceptual challenges abound. Is social information processing domain specific? Is it universal or susceptible to individual differences and … Continue reading →

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Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

The field of social cognitive neuroscience has captured the attention of many researchers during the past ten years. Much of the impetus for this new field came from the development of functional neuroimaging methods that made it possible to unobtrusively … Continue reading →

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The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. The social neuroscience approach to the subject is premised on the idea that studying empathy at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, and social) will lead to … Continue reading →

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Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Empathy is the ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. Knowing what someone else is feeling plays a fundamental role in interpersonal interactions. In this paper, we articulate evidence from social psychology and … Continue reading →

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Cultural Neuroscience and the Collective Good

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

What is the role of the individual in the collective good? From Rosa Parks to Mother Theresa, human history is rife with examples of prosocial change brought about by individual heroism. In this chapter, we explore the importance of the … Continue reading →

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