Neural mechanisms of social decision making

Scott Huettel

Duke University

Embedding choices in a social context often changes both the process and outcome of decision making. 
In this talk, I will describe recent work that uses functional neuroimaging to examine differences 
between social decisions involving consideration of the preferences of others and non-social decisions 
that have similar information content. Results from these studies have implications for theories of the 
function of the temporal-parietal junction, a brain region whose role in social cognition has remained 
controversial.