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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d9277491e70">How do we form impressions of people and groups
and use these representations to guide
our actions? From its inception, social neuroscience has sought to illuminate such
complex forms of social cognition, and recently these efforts have been invigorated
by the use of computational modeling. Computational modeling provides a framework
for delineating specific processes underlying social cognition and relating them to
neural activity and behavior. We provide a primer on the computational modeling approach
and describe how it has been used to elucidate psychological and neural mechanisms
of impression formation, social learning, moral decision making, and intergroup bias.
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