Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Soc Neurosci. 2012;7(1):18-29. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2011.568702. Epub 2011 Jun 30.
Complex social behaviors allow various social organisms to create emergent organizations that extend beyond the individual. Social neuroscience is a burgeoning field that strives to understand the genetic, hormonal, and neural mechanisms responsible for these social structures and behaviors. Consequently, social neuroscience is highly interdisciplinary in nature and embraces the application of methods ranging from the molecular to the molar to investigate the reciprocal interactions between biological, cognitive, and social levels of analysis. The broad scope of such an endeavor introduces particular challenges associated with the integration of multiple levels of analysis. In the present mini-review, we highlight some recent findings in the field of social neuroscience and demonstrate the potential benefits of applying multilevel integrative analysis to the study of social behavior and its influence on physiology and health.
复杂的社会行为使各种社会生物能够创造超越个体的新兴组织。社会神经科学是一个新兴的领域，致力于理解负责这些社会结构和行为的遗传、激素和神经机制。因此，社会神经科学本质上是高度跨学科的，它采用从分子到整体的方法来研究生物、认知和社会分析层面之间的相互作用。这种努力的广泛范围带来了与整合多个分析层次相关的特殊挑战。在本次迷你综述中，我们强调了社会神经科学领域的一些最新发现，并展示了应用多层次综合分析研究社会行为及其对生理学和健康的影响的潜在益处。
