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Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and many animal species live. However, there is mounting evidence that the social environment affects behavior across species, from microbes to humans.
This volume brings together scholars who work with animal and human models of social behavior to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary academic field.
List of contents
Preface.- Robin Dunbar: What's so social about the social brain?.- Steve Rogers: The neurobiology of a transformation from asocial to social life during swarm formation in desert locusts.- Jakob Bro-Jorgensen: Social neuroscience and the study of animal communication.- Jay J. van Bavel et al.: The group mind: the pervasive influence of social identity on cognition.- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Development and social selection in the emergence of "emotionally modern" humans.- Mark van Vugt: On faces, gazes, votes, and followers: evolutionary psychological and social neuroscience approaches to leadership.- Craig Ferris: Using awake animal imaging to understand neural circuits of emotion: studies ranging from maternal care to aggression.- Jean Decety: The neuro-evolution of empathy and caring for others: why it matters for morality.- Beatrice de Gelder and Ruud Hortensius: The many faces of the emotional body.- Kiley J. Hamlin: The origins of human morality: complex socio-moral evaluations by preverbal infants.- Ilanit Gordon: Can oxytocin improve core brain and behavioral features of Autism Spectrum Disorders in children?.- Jack van Honk et al.: Testosterone and dominance in humans: behavioral and brain mechanisms.- Subject index.
Summary
Traditionally, neuroscience has considered the nervous system as an isolated entity and largely ignored influences of the social environments in which humans and many animal species live. However, there is mounting evidence that the social environment affects behavior across species, from microbes to humans.
This volume brings together scholars who work with animal and human models of social behavior to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this interdisciplinary academic field.
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From the book reviews:
“Jean Decety and Yves Christen bring together 17 of the leading researchers in the emerging discipline of social neuroscience to discuss the key concepts and findings that define this new field of investigation. … It provides a solid overview of research in the new subspecialty of social neuroscience and would serve as excellent supplementary reading for various courses across a number of disciplines. … most appropriate for graduate students and professionals interested in acquiring a broad understanding of social neuroscience.” (Samuel T. Gontkovsky and Charles M. Burack, PsyCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (12), 2015)
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From the book reviews:
"Jean Decety and Yves Christen bring together 17 of the leading researchers in the emerging discipline of social neuroscience to discuss the key concepts and findings that define this new field of investigation. ... It provides a solid overview of research in the new subspecialty of social neuroscience and would serve as excellent supplementary reading for various courses across a number of disciplines. ... most appropriate for graduate students and professionals interested in acquiring a broad understanding of social neuroscience." (Samuel T. Gontkovsky and Charles M. Burack, PsyCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (12), 2015)
