Theories of mind, attachment styles, gaze detection, facial recognition & expression, gestures, actions, intentions, goals, postures, empathy, joint attention, inferring personality traits, altruism, helping behaviors, love, attachment, separation, rejection, loneliness, self-concept, ingroups, outgroups, prejudice, herds, crowds, religion, morality, aggression, anger, responsibility, and more... are relevant to understanding social virtual reality and are subjects of social neuroscience research. How much social VR can/might/should social neuroscience explain? Join Sci Tech Chat in Social VR online during the Society for Social Neuroscience annual meeting while floating above my alma mater, the University of Chicago, home base of the S4SN. Our informal meetup is unaffiliated with S4SN but we hope you'll attend both and share what you learn and experience.

The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience (2nd edition videos)

Intro to Social Neuroscience

Intro to Social Neuroscience

Computational neuroscience approaches to social cognition

Society for Social Neuroscience (Wikipedia)

Neuroscience of Virtual Reality

VR for Research in Social Neuroscience

Society for Social Neuroscience 2021

Social Neuroscience (slides)

Social neuroscience (different slides)

Also this week:

2021 Int Conf on Haptics & VR

"Social Neuroscience" - Neuroscience News

Human Mirror Neuron System in Supporting Communication in a Digital World

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