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== Society for Social Neuroscience ==
A dinner to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the interdisciplinary field of social neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience meeting (Chicago, November 2009) resulted in a series of meetings led by John Cacioppo and Jean Decety with social neuroscientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, sociologists and economists in Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Social neuroscience was defined broadly as the interdisciplinary study of the neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms underlying the emergent structures that define social species. Thus, among the participants in these meetings were scientists who used a wide variety of methods in studies of animals as well as humans, and patients as well as normal participants. The consensus also emerged that a Society for Social Neuroscience should be established to give scientists from diverse disciplines and perspectives the opportunity to meet, communicate with, and benefit from the work of each other. The international, interdisciplinary Society for Social Neuroscience (http://S4SN.org) was launched at the conclusion of these consultations in Auckland, New Zealand on 20 January 2010, and the inaugural meeting for the Society was held on November 12, 2010, the day prior to the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting (San Diego, CA).

== See also ==

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Brune, M.; Ribbert, H. & Schiefenhovel, W. (2003). The social brain: evolution and pathology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Cacioppo J.T. (2002). "Social neuroscience: Understanding the pieces fosters understanding the whole and vice versa". American Psychologist. 57 (11): 819–831. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.57.11.819. PMID 12564179.
Cacioppo J. T.; Berntson G. G. (1992). "Social psychological contributions to the decade of the brain: Doctrine of multilevel analysis". American Psychologist. 47 (8): 1019–1028. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.47.8.1019. PMID 1510329.
Cacioppo J.T.; Berntson G.G.; Sheridan J.F.; McClintock M.K. (2000). "Multilevel integrative analyses of human behavior: social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches". Psychological Bulletin. 126 (6): 829–843. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.6.829. PMID 11107878.
Cacioppo, John T.; Gary G. Berntson (2004). Social Neuroscience: Key Readings. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-84169-099-5. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08..
Cacioppo, John T.; Penny S. Visser; Cynthia L. Pickett, eds. (2005). Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03335-0.
Cozolino, L. (2006). The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment And the Developing Social Brain. W. W. Norton & Company.
de Haan, M. & Gunnar, M.R. (2009). Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience. The Guilford Press.
Decety, J. & Cacioppo, J.T. (2011). Handbook of Social Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Decety, J. & Ickes, W. (2009). The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Emery, N.J. (2007). Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Behavior. Taylor & Francis.
Harmon-Jones, E.; P. Winkielman (2007). Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior. Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-59385-404-1..
van Lange, P.A.M. (2006). Bridging social psychology: benefits of transdisciplinary approaches. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Ward, J. (2012). The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience. Vol. New York. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-184872-005-3. Archived from the original on 2014-07-19.
Wolpert, D. & Frith, C. (2004). The Neuroscience of Social Interactions: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

== External links ==
Society for Social Neuroscience.
New Society for Social Neuroscience to help guide emerging field from the University of Chicago News Office.
University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.
"What is social neuroscience?" Introduction from the first issue (March 2006) of the journal Social Neuroscience defining social neuroscience, listing the tools of social neuroscience, and addressing the impact of social neuroscience.