The benefits from social neuroscience to social cognition research

The Neuroscience of Social Cognition

The need for a cognitive neuroscience of naturalistic social cognition.

Understanding the minds of others is one of the great challenges humans face. Accordingly, much work in cognitive neuroscience has explored the brain systems engaged when perceivers share and make inferences about the internal states of social targets. These studies, however, typically use divergent and highly simplified stimuli and methods and as a consequence have produced largely non-overlap...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

From social expectations to social cognition in early infancy.

The end of the first year marks an important social-cognitive transition for human infants. Around this time, they start to engage in a new variety of joint attentional behaviors not clearly present in the preceding months. These new social behaviors are thought to index infants' understanding of intentions in others-an understanding that ultimately gives way to an active participation in human...

Research Methods in Social and Affective Neuroscience

In the two decades since the term “social neuroscience” was first used (Cacioppo & Berntson, 1992), social and personality psychologists have increasingly and enthusiastically adopted neuroscience methods including neuroimaging, endocrinology, and peripheral physiological measurement to address social psychological questions. The number of Google hits for the phrase “social neuroscience” rose f...