Ibáñez A., Sedeño L., García A.M. (eds.) Neuroscience and Social Science: The Missing Link

New York: Springer, 2017. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-68420-8.This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation. Since its inception in the early 2000s, multilevel social neuroscience has dramatically reshaped our understanding of the affective and cultural dimensions of neurocognition. Thanks to its explanatory pluralism, this field has moved beyond long standing dichotomies and reductionisms, offering a neurobiological perspective on topics classically monopolized by non-scientific traditions, such as consciousness, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Moreover, it has forged new paths for dialogue with disciplines which directly address societal dynamics, such as economics, law, education, public policy making and sociology. At the same time, beyond internal changes in the field of neuroscience, new problems emerge in the dialogue with other disciplines.
Neuroscience and Social Science – The Missing Link puts together contributions by experts interested in the convergences, divergences, and controversies across these fields. The volume presents empirical studies on the interplay between relevant levels of inquiry (neural, psychological, social), chapters rooted in specific scholarly traditions (neuroscience, sociology, philosophy of science, public policy making), as well as proposals of new theoretical foundations to enhance the rapprochement in question.
By putting neuroscientists and social scientists face to face, the book promotes new reflections on this much needed marriage while opening opportunities for social neuroscience to plunge from the laboratory into the core of social life. This transdisciplinary approach makes Neuroscience and Social Science – The Missing Link an important resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in the social dimension of human mind working in different fields, such as social neuroscience, social sciences, cognitive science, psychology, behavioral science, linguistics, and philosophy.Neuroscience and Social Science
Agustín Ibáñez, Lucas Sedeño, and Adolfo M. García
Exploring the Borderlands of Neuroscience and Social Science
Neuroscientific Research on Social Cognition
Pablo Billeke, Patricia Soto-Icaza, Mauricio Aspé-Sánchez, Verónica Villarroel, and Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert
Valuing Others: Evidence from Economics, Developmental Psychology, and Neurobiology
Paloma Díaz-Gutiérrez, Sonia Alguacil, and María Ruz
Bias and Control in Social Decision-Making
Carlos Cornejo, Zamara Cuadros, and Ricardo Morales
Neurobiological Approaches to Interpersonal Coordination: Achievements and Pitfalls
Pascal Vrtička
The Social Neuroscience of Attachment
Fatima Maria Felisberti and Robert King
Mind-Reading in Altruists and Psychopaths
Warren D. TenHouten
From Primary Emotions to the Spectrum of Affect: An Evolutionary Neurosociology of the Emotions
Sandra Baez, Adolfo M. García, and Hernando Santamaría-García
Moral Cognition and Moral Emotions
Alejandro Rosas
On the Cognitive (Neuro)science of Moral Cognition: Utilitarianism, Deontology, and the “Fragmentation of Value”
Andrés Haye, Ricardo Morales, and Sebastián Niño
The Social/Neuroscience: Bridging or Polarizing Culture and Biology?
Impact of Social Neuroscience on Social Spheres
Olivier Piguet
Dementia and Social Neuroscience: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Fiona Kumfor, Jessica L. Hazelton, François-Laurent De Winter, Laurent Cleret de Langavant, and Jan Van den Stock
Clinical Studies of Social Neuroscience: A Lesion Model Approach
Andrés Roussos, Malena Braun, Saskia Aufenacker, and Julieta Olivera
Psychotherapy and Social Neuroscience: Forging Links Together
María Jimena Mantilla, Martín H. Di Marco, and Diego A. Golombek
The Brain in the Public Space: Social Neuroscience and the Media
Integration of Social and Neuroscientific Insights
Marcos Luis Pietto, Juan E. Kamienkowski, and Sebastián J. Lipina
Electrophysiological Approaches in the Study of the Influence of Childhood Poverty on Cognition
Jung Yul Kwon, Ryan S. Hampton, and Michael E.W. Varnum
The Cultural Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Status
Andrew Haddon Kemp, Juan Antonio Arias, and Zoe Fisher
Social Ties, Health and Wellbeing: A Literature Review and Model
Philosophical Contributions to Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Questions
Mario Bunge
The Self-Domesticated Animal and Its Study
Georg Northoff
How Is Our Self Related to Its Brain? Neurophilosophical Concepts
Roberto Arístegui
Enaction and Neurophenomenology in Language
Sergio Daniel Barberis, M. Itatí Branca, and A. Nicolás Venturelli
A Pluralist Framework for the Philosophy of Social Neuroscience
Arleen Salles and Kathinka Evers
Social Neuroscience and Neuroethics: A Fruitful Synergy