Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 119-126Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00142-2
Keywords
folk psychology; social cognition; data-driven methods; reduction; neuroscience; philosophy
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Social cognitive neuroscience is a fledgling discipline that has already accrued an impressive body of data, but important questions remain regarding the theoretical constructs and methodological approaches that it utilizes. An overview of the papers in this special issue points to several key issues facing the field. We need a theoretical vocabulary that bridges three domains: our intuitive folk conceptions of other people, the explanations offered by social psychology, and the explanations offered by cognitive neuroscience. And we need a method that can extract common patterns across multiple studies, to complement strict hypothesis testing of individual studies. These issues can be addressed, in part, by giving theory and experiment equal time, and by fostering an interdisciplinary approach that includes neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and allied disciplines. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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