Social Brain Perspectives on the Social and Evolutionary ...

Social Brain Hypothesis and Human Evolution

This is reflected in a correlation between social group size and neocortex size in primates (but not other species of animals), commonly known ...

The social brain: Mind, language, and society in evolutionary ...

The social brain (or Machiavellian Intelligence) hypothesis was proposed to explain primates' unusually large brains: It argues that the ...

an evolutionary perspective on the neurobiology of social behaviour

English · I Know What You're Thinking Brain imaging and mental privacy · Sarah D. Richmond, Geraint Rees, Sarah J. L. Edwards · 13-28 · 16.

Distinct but complementary views of the social brain - ScienceDirect

Social behavior is pervasive across the animal kingdom, and elucidating how the brain enables animals to respond to social contexts is of great interest and ...

Evolution in the Social Brain | Science

The broad interpretation of the social brain hypothesis is that individuals living in stable social groups face cognitive demands that ...

Evolution and the Social Mind | Evolutionary Psychology and Social ...

This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an ...

The Social Brain and How It Links Social Intelligence and Well-Being

Our evolutionary history has shaped strong social motivation and highly sophisticated socio-cognitive capacity that supports successful communal living. In this ...

Integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives

First, relationships and, inter alia, trust formation may reflect constraints imposed by social cognitive capacities such as theory of mind (Stiller &. Dunbar, ...

The social brain hypothesis - Dunbar - 1998 - Wiley Online Library

Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology at the University of Liverpool, England.

THE SOCIAL BRAIN: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary ...

Society in Evolutionary Perspective. R.I.M. Dunbar ... Key Words brain size, social cognition, theory of mind, social group size, culture.

Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology ... - Routledge

This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework.

Evolution of the 'Social Brain' in Humans: What Are the Benefits and ...

The reasons for the evolution of the human social brain are not yet completely understood. There is, however, growing consensus that two ...

Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition

After all, social cognition is a product of biological struc- tures (brain and body), and “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. ( ...

The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary ...

The extent to which the cognitive demands of bonding large intensely social groups involve aspects of social cognition, such as theory of ...

Elucidating the role of theory of mind in (non)religious belief

... social brain entails evolutionary tradeoffs. Autism spectrum and the ... perspective the social brain represents an expression of the genetic battle field for ...

Introduction to social neuroscience: an evolutionary perspective

Evolutionary theory and behavioral ecology, combined with empirical evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics, offer a conceptual ...

Human Evolution and the Archaeology of the Social Brain

In becoming human, those brains did not merely become larger, but of necessity they took on new socialized perspectives, a domestication of emotional capacities ...

Human Evolution & Brain Development (Preview of The Social Brain

In this episode of The Social Brain, we discuss human brain evolution and development, and what we've learned from our research into these ...

How Did Our "Social Brain" Evolve?

The concept of the “social brain” demands a marriage of social psychology and evolutionary neurobiology in order to pave the way to a greater ...

integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives - IRep

Relationships and the social brain: integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives ; Wiley-Blackwell · 2012 · 103 · 2 · 0007-1269.