Main 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.

Contents:

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I. Introduction

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1. A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience, Eddie Harmon-Jones and Piotr Winkielman

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II. Emotion Processes

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2. The Importance of Emotion-Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex, Jennifer S. Beer

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3. Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates, Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs

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4. Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test-Revisited, Brigitte M. Kudielka, Dirk H. Hellhammer, and Clemens Kirschbaum

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5. I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain, Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo

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6. How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach, Kevin N. Ochsner

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III. Motivation Processes

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7. Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction, Eddie Harmon-Jones

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8. Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation, Brian Knutson and G. Elliott Wimmer

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9. A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration, Oliver C. Schultheiss

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10. Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives, Jack van Honk and Dennis J. L. G. Schutter

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IV. Attitudes and Social Cognition

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11. Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework, William A. Cunningham and Marcia K. Johnson

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12. A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy, Jean Decety

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13.How Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings: Psychology and Neuroscience of the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory, Tedra A. Fazendeiro, Troy Chenier, and Piotr Winkielman

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14. The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition, Matthew D. Lieberman

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15. An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence, Valerie E. Stone

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V. Person Perception, Stereotyping, and Prejudice

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16. Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach, David M. Amodio, Patricia G. Devine, and Eddie Harmon-Jones

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17. Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential, Bruce D. Bartholow and Cheryl L. Dickter

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18. Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping, Tiffany A. Ito, Eve Willadsen-Jensen, and Joshua Correll

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VI. Interpersonal Relationships

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19. Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds, C. Sue Carter

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20. The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience, Marco Iacoboni

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21. Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model, Shelley E. Taylor and Gian C. Gonzaga

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22. The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways, Bert N. Uchino, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Darcy Uno, Rebecca Campo, and Maija Reblin

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