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Social Neuroscience is a rapidly expanding field which attempts to explain our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with other people by investigating the underlying neural mechanisms that inform our behavior. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice and love are now being explored and unraveled by the methods of neuroscience.

1. Introduction to Social Neuroscience
2. The Methods of Social Neuroscience
3. Evolutionary Origins of Social Intelligence and Culture
4. Emotion and Motivation
5. Reading Faces and Bodies
6. Understanding Others
7. Interacting with Others
8. Relationships
9. Groups and Identity
10. Morality and Anti-Social Behaviour
11. Developmental Social Neuroscience

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