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Jean Decety

Jean Decety PhD

Psychiatry, Neuroscience
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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Jean Decety is a French-American neuroscientist. He is the Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and its College. Decety is the director of the Child Neurosuite and the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Decety is a leading scholar on the social neuroscience of empathy, morality and prosocial behavior, as well as other topics related to the neurobiology of social cognition. His work has led to new understandings of socio-affective processes and moral decision-making in typically developing children and adults as well as forensic psychopaths. His research uses neuroimaging techniques (functional MRI and high-density EEG), psychology, and behavioral economics to examine how biological and social factors interact in contributing to social-decision making and the motivation to care for the well-being of others.
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