• List of Illustrations


• 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE
  
  
  
  • 1.1 The Evolution of Social Behaviors
  
  
  • 1.2 The Social Brain of the Desert Locust
  
  
  • 1.3 Neuroscience and Social Neuroscience
  
  
  • 1.4 What Makes Us Human?
  
  
  • 1.5 Doctrine of Multilevel Analysis and the Golden Triangle
  
  
  • 1.6. Concluding Remarks
  
  


• 2. SOCIAL CONNECTIONS MATTER
  
  
  
  • 2.1 Salutary Social Connections
  
  
  • 2.2 Measuring Objective and Perceived Social Isolation
  
  
  • 2.3 The Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness
  
  
  • 2.4 Pathways and Consequences of Social Isolation
    
    
    
    • 2.4.1 Theoretical pathways linking loneliness to mortality in the modern world
    
    
  
  
  • 2.5 Perceived Social Isolation and the Brain
  
  
  • 2.6 Concluding Remarks
  
  
  • 3. THE SOCIAL BRAIN
    
    
    
    • 3.1 Methods for the Study of the Social Brain
      
      
      
      • 3.1.1 Neuroimaging Methods
      
      
      • 3.1.2 Epigenetic Processes and Gene Expressions of the Social Brain
      
      
    
    
    • 3.2 Evolution of the Social Brain
      
      
      
      • 3.2.1 The Emergence of Homo sapiens
      
      
      • 3.2.2 The Social Brain Hypothesis
      
      
    
    
    • 3.3 Development of the Social Brain in Infancy
    
    
    • 3.4 Development of the Social Brain with Salutary Relationships
    
    
    • 3.5 Concluding Remarks
    
    
    • 4. CONNECTING FORCES
      
      
      
      • 4.1 Emotional Contagion, Affective Perspective Taking, and Empathy
      
      
      • 4.2 Imitation and Identification
      
      
      • 4.3 Mentalizing
        
        
        
        • 4.3.1 Egocentrism Perspective
        
        
        • 4.3.2 Simulation Perspective
        
        
        • 4.3.3 The Theory of Mind Perspective
        
        
        • 4.3.4 Multiple Pathways
        
        
      
      
      • 4.4 Social Learning
      
      
      • 4.5 Concluding Remarks
      
      
      • 5. SOCIAL PERCEPTION: READING THE FACE
        
        
        
        • 5.1 Face Perception
        
        
        • 5.2 Static Signals
        
        
        • 5.3 Slow Signals
        
        
        • 5.4 Artificial Signals
        
        
        • 5.5 Rapid Signals
          
          
          
          • 5.5.1 Expressions of Emotion
          
          
          • 5.5.2 Patient and Animal Research
          
          
          • 5.5.3 Negative Moral Emotions
          
          
        
        
        • 5.6 Concluding Remarks
        
        
        • 6. SOCIAL DECEPTION: READING THE EYES
          
          
          
          • 6.1 Deceptive Expressions
          
          
          • 6.2 Reading the Eyes
          
          
          • 6.3 Gaze Direction
          
          
          • 6.4 Production and Detection of Deception
            
            
            
            • 6.4.1 Functional Organization of the Central Nervous System
            
            
            • 6.4.2 Deceptive Signals and Expressions Revisited
            
            
          
          
          • 6.5 Integration of Physical, Contextual, and Behavioral Influences
          
          
          • 6.6 Concluding Remarks
          
          
          • 7. GROUP PROCESSES
            
            
            
            • 7.1 Interspecific and Intraspecific Competition
            
            
            • 7.2 Reciprocity
            
            
            • 7.3 Ingroups and Outgroups
            
            
            • 7.4 The Neuroscience of Prejudice and Stereotyping
              
              
              
              • 7.4.1 Stereotyping
              
              
              • 7.4.2 Prejudice and Discrimination
              
              
              • 7.4.3 Mitigating Bias
              
              
            
            
            • 7.5 Punitive Altruism and Cooperation
            
            
            • 7.6 Concluding Remarks
            
            
            • 8. SOCIAL INFLUENCE
              
              
              
              • 8.1 Conformity
              
              
              • 8.2 Obedience to Authority
              
              
              • 8.3 Persuasion
                
                
                
                • 8.3.1 Evolutionary and Cultural Contributions to Persuasion
                
                
                • 8.3.2 Communication and Persuasion
                
                
              
              
              • 8.4 Concluding Remarks
              
              
              • 9. SALUTARY SOCIAL CONNECTIONS
                
                
                
                • 9.1 From “Me” to “We”
                
                
                • 9.2 Passionate Romantic Love
                
                
                • 9.3 Other Types of Love and Biological Drives
                
                
                • 9.4 The Speed of Love in the Human Brain
                
                
                • 9.5 Romantic Rejection
                
                
                • 9.6 Cognitive Benefits of Love
                  
                  
                  
                  • 9.6.1 Benefits of Love on Embodied Cognition
                  
                  
                  • 9.6.2 Benefits of Love on Social Cognition
                  
                  
                
                
                • 9.7 Concluding Remarks
                
                
                • APPENDIX A
                  
                  
                  
                  • The Cacioppo Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness (ETL)
                  
                  
                
                
                • APPENDIX B
                  
                  
                  
                  • The Passionate Love Scale
                  
                  
                
                
                • References
                
                
                • Index