Social Neuroscience

People Thinking About Thinking People

John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser, Cynthia L. Pickett - Collection Cognitive/Neuroscience

304 pages, parution le 12/12/2005

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Résumé

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 Neuroscience examine 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.

L'auteur - John T. Cacioppo

John T. Cacioppo is Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology, Director of the Social Psychology Program, and Co-Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago.

L'auteur - Penny S. Visser

Penny S. Visser is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and editor of a special issue of Political Psychology on social neuroscience.

L'auteur - Cynthia L. Pickett

Cynthia L. Pickett was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and is now an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Davis.

Sommaire

Foreword
Preface
Reasoning about Brains
Neurological Substrates of Emotional and Social Intelligence: Evidence from Patients with Focal Brain Lesions
Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness
Thinking about Others: The Neural Substrates of Social Cognition
Four Brain Regions for One Theory of Mind?
Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Social Intelligence
Investigating Cortical Mechanisms of Language Processing in Social Context
Orbitofrontal Cortex and Social Regulation
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
The Social Neuroscience of Stereotyping and Prejudice: Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Study Social Perception
Race and Emotion: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Perspective
Animal Models of Human Attitudes: Integration across Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Neuroscience
Characterizing the Functional Architecture of Affect Regulation: Emerging Answers and Outstanding Questions
What is Special about Social Cognition?
Social Neuroscience: A Perspective
Contributors
Index

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser, Cynthia L. Pickett
Collection	Cognitive/Neuroscience
Parution	12/12/2005
Nb. de pages	304
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	780g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262033350
ISBN13	978-0-262-03335-0