"The book explores the underlying processes-neural, psychological, and cultural-that make us social"--

Series Foreword vii1 What Is Social Cognition? 1I Cooperation--Benefits of Being with Others2 Learning from Others 213 Mirrors in the Brain 354 Sharing Emotions 495 The We-Mode 676 Joint Action 81II Competition--Difficulties of Being with Others7 Predicting Behavior 958 Us and Them 1119 Reputation and Trust 12510 Mentalizing: The Competitive Heart of Social Cognition 14111 The Dark Side 163III Computation--A Hierarchical System of Prediction and Action 12 Modeling the Social World: The Computational Approach 181IV Culture--Sharing Experiences with Others and Modeling the Modelers13 Signals from the Deep 20714 Consciousness and Control 22115 Making Decisions in Groups 23716 Communicating and Sharing Meaning 25517 The Power of Teaching 27118 Culture and the Brain 28519 Getting Along Together 301Epilogue20 Facing a Pandemic Can Bring Out the Good in Us 321Acknowledgments 329References 333Index 391