User:Decety

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Jean Decety is currently a professor at the University of Chicago and the College where he is the director of the social cognitive neuroscience laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University Claude Bernard (Lyon, France) in 1989. His research focuses on the brain mechanisms underpinning empathy, sympathy, perspective-taking, mimicry and imitation. Dr. Jean Decety currently serves as the editor of the journal 'Social Neuroscience.'