Social Neuroscience

Nerouecomonics

• we dont alaways make decsions that maximize our rewards and minimize our losses

• ratinal decions are meditiated by the orbitofrontal cortex

• emition driven resoinses are meditated by the amygdala

Orbitofrontal damage

• people tends to unaware of their social mistakes in the moment but when they do they become embaress by watching a vidoe of themsleves

• Social faux experiement

• teasing experiemnt

• antisocial personality

Somatic marker hypothesis: people with damage to the orbiifrontal cortex may fail to inhibit socially inappporoptate behavrior.

The trolley problem: is a thought experiment that explores ethical dilemmas and the consequences of actions. It's a fictional scenario where a bystander or driver must choose between saving five people from a trolley or killing one person:

a classic ethical dilemma used in social neuroscience to explore moral decision-making, where individuals must choose between taking an action that will result in one person's death to save a larger number of people.

The ultimatum game: a simple strategic situation between two people. One person, called the proposer, divides a fixed amount of money into two parts. This division is presented to the second person, termed the responder, as a 'take it or leave it' offer (hence the name 'ultimatum').

The ellsberg Paradox: Bettting on hand with 50/50 marrbles casueb they know the amount and not the other hand where you dont know the combination

thought experiment and a well-known example of risk aversion that illustrates how people are averse to ambiguity and avoid probabilities that are difficult to assess: a situation in decision theory where people's choices violate the principles of expected utility theory, demonstrating how individuals often prefer known risks over unknown risks, even when the latter might yield a better outcome.

Orphanage dillema: give and take meals from orphanes in africa

taking-disguting, giving-orbitcalfrontoal, vlaue

A scenario that explores moral decision-making, where individuals must choose between saving a larger number of people or a single child they have a personal connection to, highlighting the tension between utilitarianism and emotional reasoning in social choices.

Affective empathy: the capacity to emotionally resonate with the feelings of others, which plays a crucial role in how we navigate moral dilemmas and make decisions that impact both ourselves and those around us.

cognitive empathy: the ability to understand and comprehend the emotions and perspectives of others, enabling individuals to analyze situations logically and consider the broader implications of their choices in social contexts.

Empahis on ingorups and outgroups creates an emapthy gap

dewpression goes up when theres too much or too little empahty

lonely people misintperprt acts kindess sent theur way and may lose tha ability ro reflexvuly smile in repsonse to somone elses smile