Social Neuroscience: Biological Approaches to Social Psychology

Description

Social Neuroscience provides an updated and critically important survey of contemporary social neuroscience research. In response to recent advances in the field, this book speaks to the various ways that basic biological functions shape and underlie social behavior. The book also shows how an understanding of neuroscience, physiology, genetics, and endocrinology can foster a fuller, more consilient understanding of social behavior and of the person. These collected chapters cover traditional and contemporary social psychology topics that have received conceptual and empirical attention from social neuroscience approaches. While the focus of the chapters is demonstrating how social neuroscience methods contribute to understanding social psychological topics, they also cover a wide range of social neuroscience methods, including hormones, functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, event-related brain potentials, cardiovascular responses, and genetics. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors 1 A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience: Biological Perspectives on Social Psychology 2 Perceiving Persons: Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches 3 Persuasion Neuroscience: New Potential to Test Dual-process Theories 4 Mentalizing 5 Three Questions about the Neural Basis of Self 6 The Neuroscience of “Ego Depletion”: How the Brain Can Help us Understand why Self-control Seems Limited 7 Existential Neuroscience: A Review and Outlook for the Case of Death Awareness 8 Oxytocin Conditions Human Group Psychology 9 Sex, Love, Temptation: Human Mating Motives and the Hormones that Underlie them 10 The Biological Perspective on Intergroup Relations 11 Neural Correlates of Social Pain 12 A Review of Social Neuroscience Research on Anger and Aggression 13 Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences Index