Social Neuroscience

           While learning about human brain and its relationship with things that I previously had never thought have link with, I realized how knowledge about human brain is important even in the research of social psychology. Before, I simply thought that researching human brain is only for cognitive psychologists. Now that I am aware brain is not a fixed product, but rather an always-transforming one that is affected continuously by the environment, social context(culture), and social influence, I became hugely interested in the effect social relationships and contexts have on formation of brain structure/activity. I wondered if there is also a specific branch of subject that concentrates on how brain mediates in social influences, or how social influences mediates brain activity, vice versa. Through some googling, I could find out that the field exists, and it is called Social Neuroscience. The field of Psychology emerged since 1992, by John Cacioppo and Gary Berntson. The representative research laboratory for Social neuroscience resides in University of Chicago. Former Psychology professor from Yonsei University, Hoon-gu, Lee introduces the concept more in depth.(Follow the link)   http://blog.naver.com/nanmokko?Redirect=Log&logNo=20013578485

I'd enjoy to learn what kind of brain activities take place when people realizes they committed a morally wrong behavior, in relations with cognitive dissonance. For example, research on the brain activity that took place during those people, who falsely accused TABLO of faking his academic records, saw TABLO's academic records and identity being clearly proven by Stanford univ.