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Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding
the Underpinnings of the Social Mind
Edited by Alexander Todorov, Susan Fiske,
and Deborah Prentice
The Neuroscience of Social Interaction:
Decoding, Imitating, and Influencing theActions of Others
Edited by Christopher D. Frithand Daniel Wolpert
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience
Edited by Kevin N. Ochsnerand Stephen M. Kosslyn“This astonishing volume is an intellectual romp across the social and biological sciences. It treats fundamentallyinteresting ideas—from altruism to empathy to affection—clearly and comprehensively. From neurons to networks, fromgenes to groups, this volume marks the birth of social neuroscience as a new, integrative paradigm for viewing humans.
It’s a learned and riveting tour de force.”
Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Sociology, Harvard University“No other book comes close to being such a comprehensive reference work on social neuroscience or such a browsable
collection of fascinating papers in this field.”
Martha J. Farah, Ph.D., Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania“Social neuroscience is a dynamic and diverse new field of neuroscience, and this outstanding handbook features many of its
leaders and emerging leaders. It presents exciting new ways of looking at how the social environment for both humans andanimal species affects brain and behavior as well as the rest of the body.”
Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., Alfred E. Mirsky Professor, The Rockefeller University

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The complexities of the brain and nervous system
make neuroscience an inherently interdisciplinarypursuit, one which comprises disparate basic,clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral
neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous
system as instruments of sensation and response;
cognitive neuroscientists focus mostly on
representations and processes such as attention
and memory.
The Oxford Handbook of Social Neurosciencemarks the emergence of a third broad perspectivein this field. With an emphasis on the neural,
hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms
underlying social behavior, social neuroscienceplaces emphasis on the associations and influences
between social and biological levels oforganization. This complex interdisciplinary
perspective demands theoretical, methodological,statistical, and inferential rigor to effectively
integrate basic, clinical, and applied perspectives
on the nervous system and brain. This
comprehensive volume includes:

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SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCEJohn T. Cacioppo, Ph.D., is the Tiffany andMargaret Blake Distinguished Service Professorand Director of the Center for Cognitive andSocial Neuroscience at the University of Chicago.

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Reflecting the diverse perspectives that make up
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