Despite the impressive amount of results generated since the “decade of the brain”, neuroscience has until lately treated people as isolated units. Clearly, such an approach does not account for the fact that humans are inherently social beings. Doing justice to this observation, a new interdisciplinary field, social cognitive neuroscience, has emerged in the last decade and has now become one of the most productive fields in understanding the interaction between mind and brain.

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