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Special Issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (December, 2006) Genetic, Comparative and Cognitive Studies of Social Behavior
Caltech, USA
Institute of Child Health, UK
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What are the psychological and neurological mechanisms behind social behavior? How does social cognition vary across phylogeny and across development? And how is it influenced by genetic variation? Collectively, these questions constitute much of the theme of this journal. They were the topic of a recent summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories1, which highlighted the intense interest that these questions hold for basic researchers and clinicians