The field derives from findings in cross-cultural psychology that show how social cognition and behavior depend on sociocultural context, and it combines neuroimaging, cognitive science, and social psychology to investigate the neural “representation” of social interaction and the neural “substrates” of social processes (Han and Northoff 2008, Zhou and Cacioppo 2010).
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John T. Cacioppo was one of the founders of the field of social neuroscience and the author of more...
Dr. Gary Berntson is emeritus professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology a...
Below, you can find both professor's profiles and the New York Times obituary for John T. Cacioppo, which offers some information on his research:
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.