Social Neuroscience Overview

FIGURE 4 | Neural regions that were commonly activated during the empathize and watch conditions (collapsing across emotions) compared to neutral. Source:

Summary

Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding how biological systems implement social processes, and to using biological concepts and methods to develop theories of social behavior.

Emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural and hormonal mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too survived to reproduce.

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