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Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding how biological systems implement social processes and behavior, and to using biological concepts and methods to inform and refine theories of social processes and behavior. Humans are fundamentally a social species, rather than individualists. As such, Homo sapiens create emergent organizations beyond the individual—structures that range from dyads, families, and groups to cities, civilizations, and cultures. These emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural and hormonal mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped these organisms survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too survived to reproduce. The term "social neuroscience" can be traced to a publication entitled "Social Neuroscience Bulletin" that was published quarterly between 1988 and 1994. The term was subsequently popularized in an article by John Cacioppo and Gary Berntson, published in the American Psychologist in 1992. Cacioppo and Berntson are considered as the legitimate fathers of social neuroscience. Still a young field, social neuroscience is closely related to affective neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience, focusing on how the brain mediates social interactions.
John Terrence Cacioppo (born 1951) is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He founded and is Director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Director of the Arete Initiative of the Office of the Vice President for Research and National Laboratories at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the field of social neuroscience, and is a member of the Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, and the College.
Cacioppo obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from The Ohio State University in 1977. He has served as the President of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the Society for Social Neuroscience. He has also served as the Chair of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chair of the National Research Council's Board of Behavior, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS); and Chair of the International Board of the Cluster of Excellence "Languages and Emotion," Free University Berlin. He has been elected as a Fellow in various Societies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Society of Experimental Psychologists; the Society of Experimental Social Psychology; and The Royal Society of Arts. He has also been elected as a Distinguished Member of various Societies including Psi Chi; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the American Psychological Association; the Association for Psychological Science; the Society for Social Neuroscience; the American Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research; the World Innovation Foundation; the International Organization of Psychophysiology; the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; and the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Social Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in social neuroscience. It was established in March 2006 and is published by the Psychology Press, a division of Taylor and Francis. The editor is Paul J. Eslinger (Penn State Hershey Medical Center). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 2.738, ranking it 23rd out of 75 journals in the category "Psychology" and 123rd out of 244 journals in the category "Neuroscience". Originally, it published 3 issues per year (with the last issue being a double one). Starting in 2009, the publication frequency was increased to 6 issues per year. Each year, Social Neuroscience publishes a special issue (e.g., on theory of mind, empathy, developmental neuroscience, or deception). The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, PsycINFO, Scopus, and PubMed/MEDLINE.
Source - http://serious-science.org/videos/24 Social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji on the work of consciousness, differences in perception of the same things, and the scientific role of functional MRI.
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Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press
NOTE: Because of technical difficulties at the venue, the sound is poor for the first three minutes of this recording. The quality improves at 03:34. We apologize for this and hope you will endure the less than ideal quality at the beginning of the video in favor of John Cacioppo's compelling discussion. The human brain is the most complex living structure known, tasked with producing our mental and behavioral existence. Whether investigating an isolated gene or a larger societal trend, social neuroscience takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the brain and considers how biological systems affect our social processes and behavior. In this lecture, John Cacioppo describes how social neuroscience contributes to our knowledge of the brain and how that knowledge might instruc...
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Dr. Laurence Steinberg, the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University, presents the results of his program of research on the underpinnings of risk-taking in adolescence that is informed by recent advances in developmental neuroscience. Recorded November 30, 2012.
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Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press
Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press
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Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press
Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press
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Professor Jamie Ward (University of Sussex, UK). Author of the Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, Published by Psychology Press