Abstract
We are an intensely social species — it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new field,
the social brain sciences are probing the neural underpinnings of social behaviour and have
produced a banquet of data that are both tantalizing and deeply puzzling. We are finding new
links between emotion and reason, between action and perception, and between representations
of other people and ourselves. No less important are the links that are also being established
across disciplines to understand social behaviour, as neuroscientists, social psychologists,
anthropologists, ethologists and philosophers forge new collaborations.
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