An important requirement for a domain to be compatible with the RDoC vision, is that deficits are associated with psychopathology. Social-affective neuroscience has been considered as offering pathways to elucidating neuropsychiatric disorders, where social behavior and emotion processing and expression are impacted (Cacioppo et al., 2014). In most psychiatric disorders difficulties in social functioning are evident and the underlying neural processes and systems have been examined.
