This compelling volume provides a broad and accessible overview of the emerging field of social neuroscience. Showcasing an array of cutting-edge research programs, leading investigators present new approaches to the study of how the brain influences social behavior, and vice versa. The contributors discuss the theoretical advantages of taking a social neuroscience perspective and analyze what their findings reveal about core social psychological phenomena. Essential topics include emotion, motivation, attitudes, person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and interpersonal relationships.

Table of Contents:
I. Introduction 1. A Brief Overview of Social Neuroscience, Eddie Harmon-Jones and Piotr Winkielman II. Emotion Processes 2. The Importance of Emotion–Social Cognition Interactions for Social Functioning: Insights from Orbitofrontal Cortex, Jennifer S. Beer 3. Neurobiology of Emotion Recognition: Current Evidence for Shared Substrates, Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs 4. Ten Years of Research with the Trier Social Stress Test—Revisited, Brigitte M. Kudielka, Dirk H. Hellhammer, and Clemens Kirschbaum 5. I Know How You Feel: Social and Emotional Information Processing in the Brain, Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo 6. How Thinking Controls Feeling: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach, Kevin N. Ochsner III. Motivation Processes 7. Asymmetrical Frontal Cortical Activity, Affective Valence, and Motivational Direction, Eddie Harmon-Jones 8. Reward: Neural Circuitry for Social Valuation, Brian Knutson and G. Elliott Wimmer 9. A Biobehavioral Model of Implicit Power Motivation Arousal, Reward, and Frustration, Oliver C. Schultheiss 10. Vigilant and Avoidant Responses to Angry Facial Expressions: Dominance and Submission Motives, Jack van Honk and Dennis J. L. G. Schutter IV. Attitudes and Social Cognition 11. Attitudes and Evaluation: Toward a Component Process Framework, William A. Cunningham and Marcia K. Johnson 12. A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Model of Human Empathy, Jean Decety 13.How Dynamics of Thinking Create Affective and Cognitive Feelings: Psychology and Neuroscience of the Connection between Fluency, Liking, and Memory, Tedra A. Fazendeiro, Troy Chenier, and Piotr Winkielman 14. The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition, Matthew D. Lieberman 15. An Evolutionary Perspective on Domain Specificity in Social Intelligence, Valerie E. Stone V. Person Perception, Stereotyping, and Prejudice 16. Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: Insights from a Social Neuroscience Approach, David M. Amodio, Patricia G. Devine, and Eddie Harmon-Jones 17. Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception: A Selective Review Focused on the Event-Related Brain Potential, Bruce D. Bartholow and Cheryl L. Dickter 18. Social Neuroscience and Social Perception: New Perspectives on Categorization, Prejudice, and Stereotyping, Tiffany A. Ito, Eve Willadsen-Jensen, and Joshua Correll VI. Interpersonal Relationships 19. Neuropeptides and the Protective Effects of Social Bonds, C. Sue Carter 20. The Quiet Revolution of Existential Neuroscience, Marco Iacoboni 21. Affiliative Responses to Stress: A Social Neuroscience Model, Shelley E. Taylor and Gian C. Gonzaga 22. The Social Neuroscience of Relationships: An Examination of Health-Relevant Pathways, Bert N. Uchino, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Darcy Uno, Rebecca Campo, and Maija Reblin