Foundations in Social Neuroscience

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John T. Cacioppo
MIT Press, 2002 - Medical - 1345 pages

A full understanding of the biology and behavior of humans cannot be complete without the collective contributions of the social sciences, cognitive sciences, and neurosciences. This book collects eighty-two of the foundational articles in the emerging discipline of social neuroscience.

The book addresses five main areas of research: multilevel integrative analyses of social behavior, using the tools of neuroscience, cognitive science, and social science to examine specific cases of social interaction; the relationships between social cognition and the brain, using noninvasive brain imaging to document brain function in various social situations; rudimentary biological mechanisms for motivation, emotion, and attitudes, and the shaping of these mechanisms by social factors; the biology of social relationships and interpersonal processes; and social influences on biology and health.

 

Contents

Social Neuroscience
3
49
9
II
10
Clues from the Brain
27
Meaney
39
71
41
60
43
Double Dissociation of Conditioning
138
42
645
367
691
32
719
BIOLOGY OF SOCIAL
747
659
755
51
791
56
851
V
882

and Biological Approaches
150
Memorya Century
177
SOCIAL COGNITION
187
14
197
15
206
Posner and Mary
215
16
226
III
245
Biomedical Research
275
19
277
A Project
365
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
387
28
405
29
425
30
432
III
449
IV
573
41
633
Adrian Raine Todd Lencz Susan
1023
Influences on the Development
1037
Richard E Tremblay Christa
1049
Zoccolillo and Jacques Montplaisir
1059
Dopamine and the Structure
1067
Psychological Influences on Surgical
1111
Protective and Damaging Effects
1127
1111
1133
Types of Stressors That Increase
1225
Steven F Maier and Linda
1251
82
1273
1195
1279
Psychosocial Factors
1287
Sources
1307
Index
1313
Owen Hugh C Middleton Emma
1336
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About the author (2002)

John Terrence Cacioppo was born in Marshall, Texas on June 12, 1951. He received a bachelor of science degree in economics in 1973 from the University of Missouri and a doctorate in social psychology at Ohio State University in 1977. He taught at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Iowa, Ohio State University, and the University of Chicago. In the early 1990s, he and Gary Berntson were the founding fathers of social neuroscience, which bridged biology and psychology. Cacioppo was a neuroscientist with an expertise in loneliness. He wrote hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books including Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connections written with William Patrick. In 2015, Cacioppo developed salivary gland cancer. At his death, he was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, director of the university's Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and chairman of the Social Psychology Program. He died on March 5, 2018 at the age of 66.

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