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Robbing the Cranium with Rob Chavez

December 06, 2020 Smriti Mehta and Paul Connor/ Rob Chavez Season 1 Episode 18
More of a Comment Than a Question
Robbing the Cranium with Rob Chavez
Show Notes

This week, we talk to Rob Chavez, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. We discuss what social neuroscience is, how social psychology can inform neuroscience, and whether our understanding of the brain can have broader impacts on society.


This is your Brain on Psychology – This is your Psychology on Brain (a guest post by Rob Chavez): https://thehardestscience.com/2018/11/30/this-is-your-brain-on-psychology-this-is-your-psychology-on-brain-a-guest-post-by-rob-chavez/


Niv, Yael. (2020, October 22). The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y8mxe


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