Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers
By: edited by Scott Atran ... [et al.].
Contributors: Atran, Scott, 1952-
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1167; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1167.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781573317603
Subjects: Social values; Empathy; Congresses; Neuropsychology; Fairness
Notes: Papers are the result of the first Barcelona Social Brain Conference, entitled Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers : a neurocognitive approach to fairness, organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, the European Science Foundation, the Catalan Research Foundation and the Social Brain Chair, and held on November 21-22, 2008 at Fundació "la Caixa" Barcelona, Spain.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers; title: Lethal altruists: itineraries along the dark outskirts of moralistic prosociality; title: The need for a cognitive neuroscience of naturalistic social cognition; title: From dehumanization and objectification to rehumanization: neuroimaging studies on the building blocks of empathy; title: When the self becomes other: toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination; title: Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment; title: The development of adolescent social cognition; title: Genoeconomics: promises and caveats for a new field; title: Experimental game theory and behavior genetics; title: The neurochemistry of fairness: clarifying the link between serotonin and prosocial behavior; title: Arginine vasopressin and oxytocin modulate human social behavior; title: Empathy in early childhood: genetic, environmental, and affective contributions; title: What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism?; title: Sex differences in intergroup competition, aggression, and warfare: the male warrior hypothesis; title: Precis of implicit nationalism; title: Reason within passion: values as motivational anchors of Israeli opinion on the 2006 Lebanon war and ceasefire; title: Sacred values: psychological and anthropological perspectives on fairness, fundamentalism, and terrorism; title: Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism; title: Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity; title: On hotheads and Dirty Harries: the primacy of anger in altruistic punishment; title: Neural correlates of social decision making and relationships: a developmental perspective; title: Suicidality connected with mentalizing anomalies in schizophrenia: a study with stabilized outpatients; title: Neurobiological substrates of social cognition impairment in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: gathering insights from seven structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies; title: Agent-based computer simulations of language choice dynamics; title: The use of supernatural entities in moral conversations as a cultural-psychological attractor; title: Retraction.