Building Bridges between Social Sciences and Biological Sciences: The Scope of Social Neuroscience

Weekly internal seminar by Jean Decety, neuroscientist, University of Chicago, and 2021-2022 Paris IAS Fellow.

Communication discussed by Elise Nowbahari, lecturer at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, member of the Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Ethology (LEEC) University Sorbonne Paris Nord.

Presentation

The capacity and motivation to be social are fundamental aspects of the human adaptive behavioral repertoire. Social neuroscience provides an overarching paradigm to investigate social cognition and behavior across multiple levels of analysis.