What do others think of you? How the brain perceives other people | Dong Seon-Chang | TEDxStuttgart

How do we read and understand other people? We cannot look into the head of other people. Still, almost every day we successfully interact with other people. Our brain is specialized in perceiving "social cues", and almost automatically perceives basic information about other people, such as age, gender, or ethnicity. How does our brain manage to do this? Is it possible to accurately predict the social behavior of other people? Do we perceive the actions of other people differently in other cultures? I will give you an overview about what the brain perceives from other people and how to deal with it. Dong-Seon is working at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, finishing his PhD thesis in the field of Social Neuroscience. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, but also lived more than 10 years in Korea and the USA. Always interested in how people interact with each other, his unique cross-cultural experiences motivated him to study how social behavior is represented in our brains. What he finds amazing is that there are so many things humans share in common, regardless of cultures. He is also the German national champion of science slam in 2014. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx