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Editorial
. 2024 Jun 13;19(1):nsae035.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsae035.

Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future

Matthew D Lieberman  1
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Editorial

Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future

Matthew D Lieberman. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared that they had no conflict of interest with respect to their authorship or the publication of this article.

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Distribution of SAN, developmental and other non-SAN talks given at the 2023 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference.
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Among the membership of the SAN Society membership (a) the percentage of researchers who think of social neuroscience as a sub-discipline of social psychology and (b) the percentage who identify primarily as a social psychologist.
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Percent of SAN PhD’s from different areas of psychology and neuroscience.
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Survey of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society membership regarding the prestige of a university with a formal Social and Affective Neuroscience area.
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Allied research areas for Social and Affective Neuroscience.
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