Social neuroscience : integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior / / edited by Eddie Harmon-Jones, Piotr Winkielman

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London, : Guilford, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neuropsychology; Social psychology
• Altri autori: Harmon-JonesEddie WinkielmanPiotr
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; I. INTRODUCTION; 1. A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience; II. EMOTION PROCESSES; 2. The Importance of Emotion-Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from the Orbitofontal 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 Behavioral 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 Reguation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach; 17. Social Cognitive Neurocience 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social neuroscience
• ISBN: 1-281-12381-1; 9786611123819; 1-59385-670-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823417303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II