Jean Decety, Ph.D

Irving B. Harris Professor at the University of Chicago and its College with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry.

Co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Address:	5848 S. University Ave., Kelly 308 Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone:	773-834-3711
Fax:	773-702-0886
Email:	decety@uchicago.edu
Lab Website:	http://scnl.org

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Education & Training

• University Claude Bernard, Lyon (France), Ph.D. (neurobiology), 1989.
• Post-doc at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm (Sweden), 1990-1991, in the Departments of Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuroradiology.
• University Claude Bernard, Advanced Master degree in Biological and Medical Engineering Sciences, 1987.
• University Claude Bernard, Advanced Master degree in Neuroscience, 1988.

Research Interests

• Antisocial behavior
• Conduct disorder
• Psychopathy
• Developmental affective and social neuroscience
• Moral reasoning in children and adolescents

Teaching

• Brain Mapping Workshop, PSYCH 38250
• The Mind, SOSC 14300
• The Social Neuroscience of Empathy and Sympathy, PSYCH 33300

Society Memberships

• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Organization for Human Brain Mapping
• International Brain Research Association

Selected Publications

• Yamada, M., & Decety, J. (2009). Unconscious affective processing and empathy: An investigation of subliminal priming on the detection of painful facial expressions. Pain, 143, 71-75.
• Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., Akitsuki, Y., & Lahey, B. (2009). Atypical empathic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: a functional MRI investigation. Biological Psychology, 80, 203-211.
• Decety, J., & Meyer, M. (2008). From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social developmental neuroscience account. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 1053-1080.
• Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., & Akitsuki, Y. (2008). Who caused the pain? A functional MRI investigation of empathy and intentionality in children. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2607-2614.
• Cheng, Y., Lin, C., Liu, H.L., Hsu, Y., Lim, K., Hung, D., & Decety, J. (2007). Expertise modulates the perception of pain in others. Current Biology, 17, 1708-1713.
• Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. The Neuroscientist, 13, 580-593.
• Decety, J., & Moriguchi, Y. (2007). The empathic brain and its dysfunction in psychiatric populations: implications for intervention across different clinical conditions. BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 1, 22-65.
• Decety, J., & Batson, C.D. (2007). Social neuroscience approaches to interpersonal sensitivity. Social Neuroscience, 2(3-4), 151-157.
• Lamm, C., Batson, C.D., & Decety, J. (2007). The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 42-58.
• Cheng, Y., Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2007). Motivation modulates the activity of the human mirror system: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1979-1986.
• Jackson, P.L., Rainville, P., & Decety, J. (2006). To what extent do we share the pain of others? Insight from the neural bases of pain empathy. Pain, 125, 5-9.
• Sommerville, J. A., & Decety, J. (2006). Weaving the fabric of social interaction: Articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 179-200.
• Brunet, E., & Decety, J. (2006). Social brain dysfunctions in schizophrenia: A review of neuroimaging studies. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 148, 75-92.
• Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.
• Farrer, C., Franck, N., Frith, C.D., Decety, J., Damato, T., & Jeannerod, M. (2004). Neural correlates of action attribution in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 131, 31-44.
• Keri, S., Decety, J., Roland, P.E., & Gulyas, B. (2004). Feature uncertainty activates anterior cingulate cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 21, 26-33.
• Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2004). How would you feel versus how do you think she would feel? A neuroimaging study of perspective taking with social emotions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 988-999.
• Decety, J., & Sommerville, J.A. (2003). Shared representations between self and others: A social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 527-533.
• Decety, J., & Chaminade, T. (2003). When the self represents the other: A new cognitive neuroscience view on psychological identification. Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 577-596.
• Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2003). What you believe versus what you think they believe? A neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective taking. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 2475-2480.
• Blakemore, S-J., Sarfati, Y., Bazin, N., & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of intentional contingencies in simple animations in psychotic patients with delusions of persecution. Psychological Medicine, 33, 1433-1441.
• Brunet, E., Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Baylé, M.C., & Decety, J. (2003). A PET study of the attribution of intentions to others in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1574-1582.

Other Activities

• Editor in Chief of Social Neuroscience
• Executive committee member of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
• Member of the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering

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