Foundations in Social Neuroscience

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

• 49: 9
• BEHAVIOR: 13
• 3: 21
• 73: 36
• 60: 43
• 4: 47
• 74: 49
• 12: 77
• 6: 89
• Biomedical Research: 163
• 13: 189
• 14: 197
• 15: 215
• Neural Correlates of Theoryof: 235
• III: 245
• 18: 259
• 19: 277
• An fMRI Study: 353
• Integrating Primate Behavior: 367
• SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE: 387
• Clues from the Brain: 389
• 28: 411
• 29: 425
• 30: 461
• 31: 473
• IV: 491
• 33: 523
• 523: 599
• 39: 615
• 40: 629
• W Robbins: 632
• 367: 691
• Functions and Disinhibition: 713
• 46: 725
• 42: 734
• 50: 775
• 51: 797
• 53: 817
• 54: 831
• the Effects of Social Contact: 901
• 831: 909
• V: 963
• 63: 979
• 64: 991
• 65: 999
• 387: 1011
• Dopamine and the Structure: 1071
• Perspectives from: 1111
• Protective and Damaging Effects: 1127
• 71: 1193
• The Challenge of the Gradient: 1209
• 1111: 1225
• 79: 1241
• Steven F Maier and Linda: 1251
• i: 1257
• David A Padgett John: 1269
• 1195: 1279
• Psychosocial Factors: 1287
• Sources: 1307
• Index: 1313

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Foundations in Social Neuroscience; Bradford books; Social neuroscience series
• Editor: John T. Cacioppo
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: MIT Press, 2002
• ISBN: 026253195X, 9780262531955
• Length: 1345 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Internal Medicine; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Neuroscience; Psychology / Neuropsychology; Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience