Social Neuroscience - Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind - Grand Format

Advance praise for Social Neuroscience. "Social Neuroscience provides an up-to-date survey of key themes and findings, focusing on cognitive neuroscience studies in humans. Contributions from many of the major players in the field cover topics ranging from face perception, to stereotyping and bias, to regulation, decision-making and moral judgment. Especially valuable are brief synthetic commentaries at the end of each section.
The volume will be an accessible introduction for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, and a valuable reference source for all investigating human social cognition. Importantly, the contributions all convey the excitement of the field and point to future studies, fuel for motivating the next generation of young scientists in social neuroscience."-Ralph Adolphs, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology.
"Todorov, Fiske, and Prentice have assembled the leading figures of the nascent field of social neuroscience to produce a volume that is rich with both ideas and the data to support them. Using data from brain lesions, EEG, and functional MRI, the authors consider how brain systems are organized to support social behavior. A series of fifteen chapters considers brain systems involved in a diverse array of topics including racism and dehumanized perception, the distinction between thinking about the self and about others, self-regulation and the symbolic processing of affect, emotions and emotional decision making, the components of trustworthiness in face perception, and the fate of the soul.
This book is very accessible and will appeal to a broad audience that includes scientists within related fields of psychology and neuroscience, who are interested in coming up to speed in this fast moving field, but also non-experts who are interested in the fascinating question of how social behavior is organized in the brain.The breadth of its scope, and the comprehensiveness of its individual chapters make it an ideal foundation fora graduate or advanced undergraduate seminar in social neuroscience." - Gregory McCarthy, Professor of Psychology, Yale University "social Neuroscience has revolutionized how people think about social behavior.
Ina collection of compelling, rigorous essays, the leading experts lay out the foundations of this exciting new field. This is the cutting edge of science." - Shelley E. Taylor, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.