Hutcherson, C. A., Seppala, E. M., &Gross, J. J. (2015). The neural correlates of social connection. Cognitive, Affective, &Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(1), 1-14.
Cultivating social connection has long been a goal of psychology, philosophy, religion, and public policy. Yet the psychological and neural responses that accompany a feeling of connection to others remain unclear. In the present study, we used functional neuroimaging to shed light on the neural correlates of self- and other-focused processes during the successful self-generation of feelings of social connection. To do this, we used ...