Jean Decety

Professor, Academic

1960 –

78

Who is Jean Decety?

Jean Decety is a French American neuroscientist specializing in developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cognition, particularly emotion, empathy, moral reasoning, altruism, pro-social behavior, and more generally interpersonal processes. He is Irving B. Harris Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago.

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Born
1960
France
Nationality
  • France
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Employment
  • University of Chicago
Lived in
  • Chicago

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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