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Mission of the Lab As human beings we are inherently social creatures. From birth, we forge an array of social connections with one another, including intimate personal relationships within complex societal networks. Our survival and well-being critically depends on social interaction with others. In the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (SCNL) at the University of Chicago, we investigate the core of dynamic inter-personal experience – how emotion and subjective feelings about others and self are represented in the brain and manifested in We believe that these aspects of human social cognition are fundamental to interpersonal interaction and subsequently serve as the foundation for all of human culture. It is our conviction that a better understanding of intersubjectivity and related emotions is fostered by integrative analyses that span the biological and social levels of organization. Such a multi-disciplinary approach, that bridges cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and developmental science, has the potential for generating new hypotheses concerning social cognitive disorders and aids our understanding and treatment of abnormal human social behavior. Various psychopathologies are marked by interpersonal sensitivity deficits. Projects in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab explore dysfunctions in the biopsychological mechanisms underpinning social information processing in children and adults with developmental and personality disorders including aggressive conduct disorder and antisocial behavior.
Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
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