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.
Part I: Introduction. Harmon-Jones, Winkielman, A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience. Part II: Emotion Processes. Beer, The Importance of Emotion-Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex. Heberlein, Adolphs, Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates. Kudielka, Hellhammer, Kirschbaum, Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)-Revisited. Norris Cacioppo, I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain. Ochsner, How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach. Part III: Motivation Processes. Harmon-Jones, Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction. Knutson, Wimmer, Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation. Schultheiss, A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration. van Honk, Schutter, Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives. Part IV: Attitudes and Social Cognition. Cunningham, Johnson, Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework. Decety, A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy. Fazendeiro, Chenier, Winkielman, Processing Dynamics as a Source of Affective and Cognitive Feelings. Lieberman, The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition. Stone, An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence. Part V: Person Perception, Stereotyping, and Prejudice. Amodio, Devine, Harmon-Jones, Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach. Bartholow, Dickter, Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential. Ito, Willadsen-Jensen, Correll, Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping. Part VI: Interpersonal Relationships. Carter, Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds. Iacoboni, The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience. Taylor, Gonzaga, Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model. Uchino, Holt-Lunstad, Uno, Campo, Reblin, The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways.
