Defending Social Neuroscience

Interesting read in Scientific American today. UCLA associate professor Matthew Lieberman defends the field of social neuroscience in his response to a recent paper criticizing the field. The paper, Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience, essentially describes SN as pseudo-science, stating, among other things that statistical results are "implausibly high." For the sake a full disclosure I should mentioned that I haven't read the offending article. Still I think that Lieberman's rebuttal is worth a read.

In Defense of the Value of Social Neuroscience - Scientific American