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A psychotherapist’s look into the social brain

2026-02-08

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<p>The survival of humans, and primates in general, largely hinges on predicting the social behavior of others. Consistently, the human brain is specialized for detecting salient sensory characteristics (e.g., facial expressions or tone of voice) and processing representations of others' intentions. This functional and neuroanatomical specialization, often referred to as ‘social brain’, is well-established and has...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/h5t3z_v1

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