Social Neuroscience

(3 Credits)

Provides an overview of topics in the emerging field of social neuroscience. The focus is on how theories and methods of neuroscience may be used to address classic questions of social psychology from new and informative angles. The goal of this course is to give students a broad background in social neuroscience so that they may (a) be a critical consumer of this literature, (b) broaden the way they think about connections between the mind, brain, and behavior in the context of the social world, and (c) most importantly, apply these ideas to inform their own program of research.