UQ Social Neuroscience

 
 

This site is maintained by Dr. Eric Vanman in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia.


Click on the PODCAST link at the top of this page to download podcasts of lectures for the social neuroscience course taught at UQ, July-October, 2009. 


Research Projects in 2010:


  1. Emotional Reactions to Terrorism and Terrorists’ Messages (Australian Research Council Grant with Aarti Iyer & Matthew Hornsey)

  2. Collective Guilt and Event-related Potentials (Martin Henrion, Aarti Iyer, & Phil Witowski)

  3. Intergroup Empathy, Imitation, and the Mirror Neuron System (Australian Research Council Grant Proposal with Ross Cunnington, Troy Visser, & Pascal Molenberghs)

  4. Emotional Impact of Being Asked Questions about Trauma (U.S. NIH grant with Sarah Cook)

  5. Music, Mood, and Physiology (Genevieve Dingle)

  6. Mu activity and Imitation (Sashenka Milston & Ross Cunnington)

  7. Ostracism and Social Exclusion (Michael Philipp & Beth O’Brien-McInally)




 

Welcome to the world of social neuroscience

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.