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Social Psychology
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Social psychology is an area of psychology that focuses on relations between people and groups.
In this video from BigThink, Epidemiologist Kate Pickett from the University of York,
describes how social anxiety acts directly on our bodies and minds, providing the basis for some of our most irrational and unjust tendencies:
Human imaging studies have for the first time identified brain circuitry associated with social status. Caroline Zink is a Ph.D. researcher with the National Institute of Mental Health's Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program. She explains that different brain areas are activated when a person moves up or down in a pecking order, or social hierarchy.
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