Description
This compelling volume provides a broad and accessible overview of the emerging field of social neuroscience. Showcasing an array of cutting-edge research programs, leading investigators present new approaches to the study of how the brain influences social behavior, and vice versa. The contributors discuss the theoretical advantages of taking a social neuroscience perspective and analyze what their findings reveal about core social psychological phenomena. Essential topics include emotion, motivation, attitudes, person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and interpersonal relationships.
Chapter
2. The Importance of Emotion–Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex
3. Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates
4. Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test—Revisited
5. I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain
6. How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
III. MOTIVATION PROCESSES
7. Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction
8. Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation
9. A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration
10. Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives
IV. ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION
11. Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework
12. A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy
13. How Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings: Psychology and Neuroscience of the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory
14. The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition
15. An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence
V. PERSON PERCEPTION, STEREOTYPING, AND PREJUDICE
16. Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach
17. Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential
18. Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping
VI. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
19. Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds
20. The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience
21. Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model
22. The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways