Kedia Gayannée, Harris Lasana, Lelieveld Gert-Jan, van Dillen Lotte
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, UK.
Brain Sci. 2017 Jul 28;7(8):94. doi: 10.3390/brainsci7080094.
Social neuroscience aims to understand the biological systems that underlie people's thoughts, feelings and actions in light of the social context in which they operate. Over the past few decades, social neuroscience has captured the interest of scholars, practitioners, and experts in other disciplines, as well as the general public who more and more draw upon the insights and methods of social neuroscience to explain, predict and change behavior. With the popularity of the field growing, it has become increasingly important to consider the validity of social neuroscience findings as well as what questions it can and cannot address. In the present review article, we examine the contribution of social neuroscience to economics, health, and law, three domains with clear societal relevance. We address the concerns that the extrapolation of neuroscientific results to applied social issues raises within each of these domains, and we suggest guidelines and good practices to circumvent these concerns.
社会神经科学旨在根据人们思考、感受和行动所依据的生物系统及其所处的社会环境来理解这些系统。在过去几十年里,社会神经科学吸引了其他学科的学者、从业者和专家以及普通大众的关注,他们越来越多地借鉴社会神经科学的见解和方法来解释、预测和改变行为。随着该领域的日益普及,考虑社会神经科学研究结果的有效性以及它能够和不能解决哪些问题变得越来越重要。在本综述文章中,我们考察了社会神经科学对经济学、健康和法律这三个具有明确社会相关性的领域的贡献。我们讨论了将神经科学结果外推至应用社会问题在这些领域中所引发的担忧,并提出了规避这些担忧的指导方针和良好做法。