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I highly recommend Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman.

your mentalising abilities correlate with both the number of friends you have and these same brain regions.

Humans tend to be tribal and have a huge propensity for kindness – but within their identified community

Perhaps not too surprisingly, factors that lead to greater sensitivity to social exclusion, including low self-esteem, oversensitivity to other people, a tendency to feel socially disconnected as well as being characterised at the anxious end of the attachment scale are all associated with increased activity in the ACC and AI when faced with social

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.