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Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors
Published on: January 25, 2018
The neurodevelopment of social preferences in early childhood
Jean Decety1, Nikolaus Steinbeis2, Jason M Cowell3
1Department of Psychology, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, United States.
Abstract:
Human social preferences are the product of gene-culture coevolution, and rely on predispositions that emerge early in development. These social preferences encompasse distinct motivations, mechanisms, and behaviors, that facilitate social cohesion and cooperation. Developmental social neuroscience critically contributes in elucidating the proximate mechanisms involved in social decision-making and prosociality, and their gradual maturation in interaction with the social and cultural environment.
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