Social Neuroscience Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior

by Harmon-Jones, Eddie; Winkielman, Piotr

• ISBN13: 9781593856441
• ISBN10: 159385644X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

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. Each authoritative chapter clearly describes the methods used: lesion studies, neuroimaging techniques, hormonal methods, event-related brain potential methods, and others. 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.

Author Biography

Eddie Harmon-Jones, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Harmon-Jones’s current research focuses on emotions and motivations, their implications for social processes and behaviors, and their underlying neural circuits. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. In 1999 he coedited Cognitive Dissonance: Progress on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychology. In 2002 he received the Distinguished Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research. In 2003 Dr. Harmon-Jones coedited a special issue devoted to social neuroscience for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has also served as an associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and is on the editorial boards of four other journals.
 
Piotr Winkielman, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Winkielman’s current research focuses on the relation between emotion, cognition, body, and consciousness using psychological and psychophysiological approaches. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Alliance for Autism Research. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and is currently Associate Editor of Emotion. In 2005 Dr. Winkielman coedited Emotion and Consciousness.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience	p. 3
Emotion Processes
The Importance of Emotion-Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex	p. 15
Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates	p. 31
Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test-Revisited	p. 56
I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain	p. 84
How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach	p. 106
Motivation Processes
Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction	p. 137
Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation	p. 157
A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration	p. 176
Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives	p. 197
Attitudes and Social Cognition
Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework	p. 227
A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy	p. 246
How Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings: Psychology and Neuroscience of the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory	p. 271
The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition	p. 290
An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence	p. 316
Person Perception, Stereotyping, and Prejudice
Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach	p. 353
Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential	p. 376
Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping	p. 401
Interpersonal Relationships
Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds	p. 425
The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience	p. 439
Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model	p. 454
The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways	p. 474
Index	p. 493
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