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A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

Marco K. Wittmann Open the ORCID record for Marco K. Wittmann [Opens in a new window] ,
Nadira S. Faber  and
Claus Lamm
Marco K. Wittmann
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SR, UK marco.k.wittmann@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/view/marcokwittmann Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, UK Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London WC1B 5EH, UK
Nadira S. Faber
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK nadira.faber@gmail.com http://nadirafaber.com/ Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 IPT, UK
Claus Lamm
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria claus.lamm@univie.ac.at https://scan.psy.univie.ac.at Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna 1010, Austria
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Abstract

We welcome a computational theory on social groups, yet we argue it would benefit from a broader scope. A neuroscientific perspective offers the possibility to disentangle which computations employed in a group context are genuinely social in nature. Concurrently, we emphasize that a unifying theory of social groups needs to additionally consider higher-level processes like motivations and emotions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e126
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