Topic: social neuroscience

Vicarious fear learning is a highly effective means to learn of potential dangers, as well as a result of having both emotional empathy and associative learning. Studies in social neuroscience have found projections and cell types essential for vicarious fear learning. However, it is unknown what aspects of the cortical network dynamics are essential for and contribute to processing information during social learning, which can be conveniently studied with imaging and advanced electrophysiology setups requiring head fixation. In particular, this project aims to study how the medial associative

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced, but the fields of social and decision neuroscience have contributed surprisingly little to our understanding of pro-environmental behavior. Across two studies, we adapted a well-established paradigm developed to study effortful prosocial behavior to investigate pro-environmental behavior. In study one, 74 participants engaged in a decision-making task, where they could earn a varying amount of money for themselves or a pro-environmental organization by investing a varying amount of physical force (measured by a hand-grip