Neuroscience · Cognitive Neuroscience
A topic within Cognitive Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Paul Zak
Argues from his own experiments that the hormone oxytocin causally increases trust and generosity between strangers, proposing it as a biological basis for morality; several of the underlying oxytocin-trust findings have since failed to replicate.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Christopher Frith & Uta Frith
Argues a specific brain network, medial prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction, is dedicated to representing other people's mental states, distinct from reasoning about the physical world.
link checked 17 Sept 2026