Social and Affective Neuroscience

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Understanding how individual, interpersonal, and intergroup behaviors are processed in the brain. Topics include neuroscience of self- and group identity, self-regulation, social and affective communication, stereotyping, pro- and anti-social behavior, power motivation, group cooperation and competition, and cultural differences in emotion processing. Prerequisite: Psychology 106/Neuroscience 101 or Neuroscience 102/Psychology 107.