ABSTRACT
Almost all experiments in social neuroscience measure behavior in some way, given that it is social behavior that they are trying to explain. In functional imaging experiments, the participant is given a set of instructions on how to respond even if the main dependent measure is brain activity rather than behavior per se. In social neuroscience, it is also common to correlate neurophysiological responses (e.g. during functional imaging) when performing a task with individual differences on a psychological measure such as empathy or personality (assessed outside the scanner using a questionnaire).
