SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE AND LINKS

Social psychology is the scientific study of social behavior, with an emphasis on under-standing the individual in a social context. Accordingly, social psychologists study a delightfully diverse range of topics ranging from intrapersonal processes shaped by or in response to others such as the self, attitudes, emotions, social identity, normative beliefs, social perception, social cognition, and inter-personal attraction; to interpersonal processes such as persuasion and social influence, verbal and nonverbal communication, inter-personal relationships, altruism, and aggres-sion; to group processes such as social facilitation, cooperation and competition