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Social Psychology of Visual Perception
- Edited by Emily Balcetis, and G. Daniel Lassiter.
Published April 2010
This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in it with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world is…
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Neural Correlates of Deception
A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience
- Edited by Giorgio Ganis, and Julian Keenan.
Published December 2009
Deception, also known as "lying", is a pervasive and fundamental social behavior in which a person attempts to persuade another to accept as true what the deceiver believes to be untrue. Because of its essential role in our social life, it is important for social neuroscience to reveal the inner…
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Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
- Edited by Philip David Zelazo, Michael Chandler and Eveline Crone.
Published September 2009
This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born…
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The Mirror Neuron System
A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience
- Edited by Christian Keysers, and Luciano Fadiga.
Published November 2008
Mirror neurons are premotor neurons, originally discovered in the macaque brain , that discharge both during execution of goal-directed actions and during the observation of similar actions executed by another individual. They therefore ‘mirror’ others’ actions on the observer's motor repertoire.…
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Attitudes
Insights from the New Implicit Measures
- Edited by Richard E. Petty, Russell H. Fazio and Pablo Brinol.
Published October 2008
This book tackles a subject that has captured the imagination of many researchers in the field: attitudes. Although the field has always recognized that people’s attitudes could be assessed in different ways, from direct self-reports to disguised observations of behavior, the past decade has shown…
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Biosocial Criminology
New Directions in Theory and Research
- Edited by Anthony Walsh, and Kevin M Beaver.
Published September 2008
Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.…
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Neuroscience and Crime
A Special Issue of Neurocase
- Edited by Hans Markowitsch.
Published September 2008
Until recently jurisprudence largely ignored neuroscientific findings. The advent of sophisticated methodologies in the neurosciences - in particular brain imaging techniques - reduced this unawareness, and findings, pointing to clear and unequivocal relations between brain structure and brain…
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Interpersonal Sensitivity: Entering Others’ Worlds
A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience
- Edited by Jean Decety, and Dan Batson.
Published September 2007
Interpersonal sensitivity refers to our ability to perceive and respond with care to the internal states of other people, understand the antecedents of those states, and predict the subsequent events that will result. Guest editors neuroscientist Jean Decety and social psychologist Dan Batson…
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Theory of Mind
A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience
- Edited by Rebecca Saxe, and Simon Baron-Cohen.
Published February 2007
Investigations of the neural basis of theory of mind - the ability to think about other people's thoughts - only recently became feasible; now, the number of such investigations and the sophistication of the results are accelerating dramatically.
The articles in this special issue use a wide range…
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Social Neuroscience
Key Readings
- Edited by John T. Cacioppo, and Gary G. Berntson.
Published December 2004
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind, including aspects of perception, imagery, attention, and memory. Many aspects of the mind,…
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