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Social Neuroscience: Key Readings
Edited by John T Cacioppo and Gary G Berntson
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of perception, imagery, attention and memory.
Many aspects of the mind, however, require a more comprehensive approach to reveal the mystery of mind-brain connections. Attraction, altruism, speech recognition, affiliation, attachment, attitudes, identification, kin recognition, cooperation, competition, empathy, sexuality, communication, dominance, persuasion, obedience, morality, contagion, nurturance, violence, and person memory are just a few.
Through classic and contemporary articles and reviews, Social Neuroscience illustrates the complementary nature of social, cognitive, and biological levels of analysis and how research integrating these levels can foster more comprehensive theories of the mechanisms underlying complex behaviour and the mind.
John T. Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the Director of the Social Psychology Program and the co-Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology. He is also on the Editorial Board of the journal. He is considered the world's leading researcher on social neuroscience and is passionate about the field's development, while ensuring it maintains its integrity as a truly cross-disciplinary research area.
Gary G. Berntson is Professor in the Department of Psychology, Ohio State University. His research interests include central organization and integration of behavioral and autonomic functions, with specific emphasis on substrates underlying stress and links to autonomic control mechanisms.
This title is in the Key Readings in Social Psychology series.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Behaviour
Edited by Alexander Easton and Nathan J Emery
Standing at the vanguard of cognitive neuroscience research into social behaviour, this book provides a state-of-the-art contribution to a subject still in its infancy.
The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
By Jamie Ward
A comprehensive and student friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience which covers methods, theories and findings in all the key research domains.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Development
Edited by: Mark H Johnson, Michelle de Haan
Provides an extensive overview of the methods used to study these questions, and the emerging interface between neurobiological and psychological perspectives in the study of typical and atypical cognitive development.
