Social Neuroscience

by Cacioppo, John T.; Visser, Penny S.; Pickett, Cynthia L.

• ISBN13: 9780262033350
• ISBN10: 0262033356
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

Social neuroscience uses the methodologies and tools developed to measure mental and brain function to study social cognition, emotion, and behavior. In this collection, John Cacioppo, Penny Visser, and Cynthia Pickett have brought together contributions from psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists that focus on the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing, particularly the mechanisms underlying "people thinking about thinking people." In these studies, such methods as functional brain imaging, studies of brain lesion patients, comparative analyses, and developmental data are brought to bear on social thinking and feeling systems-the ways in which human beings influence and are influenced by other humans. The broad range of disciplines represented by the contributors confirms that among the strengths of social neuroscience are its interdisciplinary approach and the use of multiple methods that bridge disciplines and levels of analysis. Social neuroscience has yielded insights into such aspects of social behavior as social regulation, social rejection, impression formation, self-awareness, and attitudes regarding social groups. The studies in Social Neuroscienceexamine topics including the neural substrates of self-awareness and social cognition, theory of mind, cortical mechanisms of language processing, stereotyping, prejudice and race, and the special quality of social cognition.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Preface	xi
Reasoning about Brains	1	(12)
Gary G. Berntson
Neurological Substrates of Emotional and Social Intelligence: Evidence from Patients with Focal Brain Lesions	13	(28)
Antoine Bechara
Reuven Bar-On
Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness	41	(22)
Debra A. Gusnard
Thinking about Others: The Neural Substrates of Social Cognition	63	(20)
Jason P. Mitchell
Malia F. Mason
C. Neil Macrae
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Four Brain Regions for One Theory of Mind?	83	(20)
Rebecca Saxe
Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Social Intelligence	103	(28)
Valerie E. Stone
Investigating Cortical Mechanisms of Language Processing in Social Context	131	(22)
Howard C. Nusbaum
Steven L. Small
Orbitofrontal Cortex and Social Regulation	153	(14)
Jennifer S. Beer
A Pain by any other Name (Rejection, Exclusion, Ostracism) still Hurts the Same: The Role of Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Social and Physical Pain	167	(22)
Matthew D. Lieberman
Naomi I. Eisenberger
The Social Neuroscience of Stereotyping and Prejudice: Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Study Social Perception	189	(20)
Tiffany A. Ito
Geoffrey R. Urland
Eve Willadsen-Jensen
Joshua Correll
Race and Emotion: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Perspective	209	(20)
Nalini Ambady
Joan Y. Chiao
Pearl Chiu
Patricia Deldin
Animal Models of Human Attitudes: Integration across Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Neuroscience	229	(16)
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Characterizing the Functional Architecture of Affect Regulation: Emerging Answers and Outstanding Questions	245	(24)
Kevin N. Ochsner
What Is Special about Social Cognition?	269	(18)
Ralph Adolphs
Social Neuroscience: A Perspective	287	(10)
Marcus E. Raichle
Contributors	297	(2)
Index	299