Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind

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Author(s): Alexander Todorov, Susan T. Fiske, Deborah A. Prentice (editors)
Series: Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2011

Language: English
Pages: 327

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
I. UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTING OTHER PEOPLE......Page 16
1. How Has Cognitive Neuroscience Contributed to Social Psychological Theory?......Page 18
2. You, Me, and My Brain: Self and Other Representations in Social Cognitive Neuroscience......Page 29
3. Distributed Process for Retrieval of Person Knowledge......Page 55
4. Evaluating Faces on Social Dimensions......Page 69
5. Social Neuroscience and the Representation of Others: Commentary......Page 92
II. UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTING SOCIAL GROUPS......Page 98
6. Perceiving Social Category Information from Faces: Using ERPs to Study Person Perception......Page 100
7. Self-Regulation in Intergroup Relations: A Social Neuroscience Framework......Page 116
8. Perceiving Humanity or Not: A Social Neuroscience Approach to Dehumanized Perception......Page 138
9. Us versus Them: The Social Neuroscience of Perceiving Out-groups......Page 150
III. REGULATION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR......Page 160
10. Self-Regulation and Evaluative Processing......Page 162
11. The Neural Basis of Emotional Decision-Making......Page 175
12. Social Neuroscience of Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity: Considering Anger and Approach Motivation......Page 188
13. Why Symbolic Processing of Affect Can Disrupt Negative Affect: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Investigations......Page 203
14. Emotion in Social Neuroscience......Page 225
IV. NAVIGATING SOCIAL LIFE......Page 230
15. The Social Brain in Interactive Games......Page 232
16. Social Pain: Experiential, Neurocognitive, and Genetic Correlates......Page 244
17. Could an Aging Brain Contribute to Subjective Well-Being? The Value Added by a Social Neuroscience Perspective......Page 264
18. Social Neuroscience and the Soul's Last Stand......Page 278
19. Building a Social Brain......Page 289
GENERAL COMMENTARY Hanging with Social Neuroscientists......Page 299
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