Description - Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers by Oscar Vilarroya
What makes suicide bombers capable of sacrificing themselves for a
belief? Why do members of one race believe they are superior to
another? How do subliminal messages affect the outcome of political
polling?
Using the tools of neuroscience and social science, researchers
have learned a great deal about the brain's role in human behavior
and interactions. This volume is the proceedings of the first
Barcelona Social Brain Conference, which was organized by the New
York Academy of Sciences, the Fundació Catalana per a la
Recerca i la Innovació, the Càtedra UAB "el cervell
social," and the European Science Foundation. Through a
neuroscientific lens, the invited chapters examine the human
qualities of empathy, sacred values, and cooperation, and focus on
the ways in which what they learn can be used to understand human
conflicts.
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