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Social theory and the cognitive-emotional brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Marco Verweij  and
Timothy J. Senior
Marco Verweij
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Jacobs University, Bremen 28759, Germany. m.verweij@jacobs-university.de www.jacobs-university.de/directory/mverweij
Timothy J. Senior
Affiliation:
Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, United Kingdom. Timothy.Senior@uwe.ac.uk www.art-sci.info
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Abstract

Pessoa's (2013) arguments imply that various leading approaches in the social sciences have not adequately conceptualized how emotion and cognition influence human decision making and social behavior. This is particularly unfortunate, as these approaches have been central to the efforts to build bridges between neuroscience and the social sciences. We argue that it would be better to base these efforts on other social theories that appear more compatible with Pessoa's analysis of the brain.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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