Search

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Home
Search

Only show content I have access to (0)

Chapters (1)

Last 3 years (1)

From year:

To year:

Apply

Psychology (1)

belongingness hypothesis

Cambridge University Press (1)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

1 results

Chapter 3 - The Social Brain and How It Links Social Intelligence and Well-Being
from Part I - Approaches to Society within the Brain
- By Sunhae Sul, Isu Cho
Edited by Jeanyung Chey, Seoul National University
Book:

Society within the Brain

Published online:

28 September 2023

Print publication:

12 October 2023, pp 69-104
- Chapter
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation
Summary

Human beings are dependent on each other in acquiring resources, securing safety, and raising offspring. Therefore, cooperation with conspecifics is essential for our survival and reproduction. Our evolutionary history has shaped strong social motivation and highly sophisticated socio-cognitive capacity that supports successful communal living. In this chapter, we review psychological and neuroscientific studies on the basic human motivation for social affiliation and social intelligence in humans. After introducing the belongingness hypothesis and the social intelligence hypothesis, we look into the functions of the social brain to understand how the human brain understands the complex social world and adjusts our behavior within it. Lastly, we briefly review the studies on aging in the social brain and discuss the link between the social brain and well-being.