Focus Social Neuroscience Website www.s4sn.org Founded 2010 | Members 1,453 Founder John T. Cacioppo Headquarters Illinois, United States | |
Location 5658 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 Key people Jean Decety, President-elect (2012-2014) Slogan Advancing the Understanding of the Social Brain Motto Advancing the Understanding of the Social Brain Similar Society for Neuroscience, Association for Psycholo, Psi Chi | ||
The Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) is a learned society, headquartered at the University of Chicago for neuroscientists, psychologists, social scientists, and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the biological systems that implement social processes and behavior, or how the brain and nervous system implement social interaction. The mission of the society is to serve as an international, interdisciplinary, distributed gathering place to advance and foster scientific training, research, and applications in the field of social neuroscience.
History
The Society for Social Neuroscience was founded on January 20, 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand, after a series of consultations led by John Cacioppo and Jean Decety with social neurobiologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and neurologists from all over the world. Its inaugural meeting took place on November 12, 2010, the day prior to the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California.