This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex
methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples from contemporary research …

The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience an inherently
interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines …

Endowed with an inherently social nature and the ability to think and to refl ect, humans
likely have entertained, since the dawn of time, varied “social psychological” hunches about …

" James Watson once said,'there are only molecules; everything else is sociology.'His
tongue-in-cheek arrogance reminds us of the great gulf that once separated the'two cultures' …

Who we are as humans has a lot to do with what happens between our ears. What happens
between our ears has a lot to do with the social world we traverse, engage, and react to. The …

In the past decade a new and exciting academic domain has expanded to scientifically
explore the biological mechanisms of social interaction. This rapid growth is reflected in …

In the two decades since the term “social neuroscience” was first used (Cacioppo &
Berntson, 1992), social and personality psychologists have increasingly and enthusiastically …

The systematic examination of how social psychological phenomena can be informed by
neuroscience methodologies, and how our understanding of neural function can be …

The development of social neuroscience at the end of the twentieth century is engaging the
disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience with the concerns about social …

Social neuroscience is a young and thriving area of research in psychology that integrates
diverse literatures and methodologies to address broad questions about the brain and …