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The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience.
Ochsner, Kevin N.; Lieberman, Matthew D.
American Psychologist, Vol 56(9), Sep 2001, 717-734.
Social cognitive neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to understand phenomena in terms of interactions between 3 levels of analysis: the social level, which is concerned with the motivational and social factors that influence behavior and experience; the cognitive level, which is concerned with the information-processing mechanisms that give rise to social-level phenomena; and the neural level, which is concerned with the brain mechanisms that instantiate cognitive-level processes. The social cognitive neuroscience approach entails conducting studies and constructing theories that make reference to all 3 levels and contrasts with traditional social psychological and cognitive neuroscientific research that primarily makes reference to 2 levels. The authors present an introduction to and analysis of the field by reviewing current research and providing guidelines and suggested directions for future work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
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  • 10.1037/0003-066X.56.9.717
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