Part One: Foundational Principles and Methods ; 1. An Introduction to Social Neuroscience ; John T. Cacioppo and Jean Decety ; 2. Historical Perspectives on Social Neuroscience ; Svenja Matusall, Markus Christen and Ina Kaufman ; 3. Evolutionary Basis of the Social Brain ; Robin Dunbar ; 4. The Evolution of Social Behavior ; Lisa A. Parr and Bridget M. Waller ; 5. Social Affective Neuroscience: A Neuropsychological Perspective ; Janelle Beadle and Daniel Tranel ; 6. Essentials of Functional of Neuroimaging ; Tor D. Wager and Martin A. Lindquist ; 7. Electromagnetic brain mapping using MEG and EEG ; Sylvain Baillet ; 8. Psychoneuroimmunology in vivo: Methods and Principles ; Jos Bosch, Christopher Engel, and Victoria Burns ; Part Two: Motivation and Emotion ; 9. Neurobiology of Social Bonding and Attachment ; C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges ; 10. Neural Basis of Motivation ; Greg J. Norman, John T. Cacioppo, and Gary Berntson ; 11. Processing social and non-social rewards in the human brain ; Lauren A. Leotti and Mauricio R. Delgado ; 12. Wanting and Liking: ; Piotr Winkielman and Kent Berridge ; 13. Attitudes ; William Cunningham, Ingrid R. Johnsen, and Andrew Jahn ; 14. The Emotion-Attention Interface: Neural, Developmental and Clinical Considerations ; Michael L. Kirwan, Lauren K. White, and Nathan Fox ; 15. The Neuroscience of Personality Traits: Descriptions and Prescriptions ; Angelina R. Sutin, Robert R. McCrae, and Paul T. Costa ; 16. Emotion Recognition ; Ralph Adolphs and Vanessa Janowski ; 17. Odor Evoked Memory ; Rachel Herz ; 18. Emotional Regulation: Neural Bases and Beyond ; Peter Mende-Siedlecki, Hedy Kober, and Kevin N. Ochsner ; Part Three: Social Cognition ; 19. Brain Development and Social Cognition ; Tomas Paus ; 20. An Overview of Self-Awareness and the Brain ; Julian Keenan, Hanna Oh, and Franco Amati ; 21. Note to Self ; Susanne Quadflieg and C. Neil Macrae ; 22. Unconscious Action Tendencies: Sources of 'Un-Integrated' Action ; Ezequiel Morsella and John A. Bargh ; 23. The Prefrontal Cortex and Goal-Directed Social Behavior ; Aron K. Barbey and Jordan Grafman ; 24. Staying in Control: The Neural Basis of Self-Regulation and its Failure ; Dylan D. Wagner, Kathryn E. Demos, and Todd F. Heatherton ; 25. Hearing voices: Neurocognition of the human voice ; Pascal Belin ; 26. Intersecting Identities and Expressions: The Compound Nature of Social Perception ; Reginald B. Adams, Jr. and Anthony J. Nelson ; 27. Person Perception ; Bruce D. Bartholow and Cheryl L. Dickter ; 28. Impression Formation: A Focus on Others' Intents ; Daniel L. Ames, Susan Fiske, and Alex Todorov ; 29. The Origin of First Impressions in Animal and Infant Face Perception ; Leslie A. Zebrowitz and Yi Zhang ; 30. Using ERPs to Understand the Process and Implications of Social Categorization ; Tiffany Ito ; 31. Real-world consequences of social deficits: Executive function and theory of mind in patients with ventral frontal damage and traumatic brain injury ; Valerie E. Stone and Catherine A. Hynes ; 32. The Neuroscience of Moral Cognition and Emotion ; Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, and Jorge Moll ; 33. Embodiment and Social Cognition ; Paula Niedenthal, Jiska Eelen, and Marcus Maringer ; 34. Socioemotional functioning and the aging brain ; Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin and Laura L. Carstensen ; Part Four: Inter-Personal Processes ; 35. Mirror Neuron System and social cognition ; Christian Keysers, Marc Thious, and Valeria Gazzola ; 36. Mirror Neuron System and Imitation ; Marco Iacoboni ; 37. Empathy ; Tania Singer and Jean Decety ; 38. Altruism ; Stephanie Preston and Frans de Waal ; 39. Why rejection hurts: What social neuroscience has revealed about the brain's response to social rejection ; Naomi Eisenberger ; 40. Neural Systems of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Self-Esteem Maintenance ; Jennifer S. Beer ; 41. The Social Regulation of Emotion ; James Coan ; 42. From Melody to Words: The Importance of Melody ; Kathleen Wermke and Werner Mende ; 43. The Development of Language ; Pat Kuhl ; 44. Language and Communication ; Howard Nusbaum ; Part Five: Group Processes ; 45. The Neurobiology of Primate Social Behavior ; Melissa Bauman, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Christopher J. Machado and David G. Amaral ; 46. Neural Representation of Social Hierarchy ; Caroline F. Zink and Joseph, W. Barter ; 47. Group Processes: Social Dominance ; Paul W. Czoty, Drake Morgan, and Michael A. Nader ; 48. Mechanisms for the Regulation of Intergroup Responses: A Social Neuroscience Analysis ; David Amodio and Kyle G. Ratner ; 49. Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing culture-gene influences on brain function ; Joan Chiao ; Part Six: Social Influences on Health and Clinical Syndromes ; 50. Perceived Social Isolation: Social Threat Vigilance and Its Implications for Health ; Louise C. Hawkley and John T. Cacioppo ; 51. Pathways Linking Early Life Stress to Adult Health ; Shelley Taylor ; 52. Physiological Effects of Social Threat: Implications for Health ; Sally S. Dickerson, Tara L. Gruenewald, and Margaret Kemeny ; 53. Social Neuroscientific Pathways Linking Social Support to Health ; Bert Uchino, Timothy Smith, Wendy Birmingham, and McKenzie Carlisle ; 54. Stress, Negative Emotions, and Inflammation ; Jean-Philippe Gouin, Liisa V. Hantsoo, and Janice K.Kiecolt-Glaser ; 55. Neural Endophenotypes of Social Behavior in Autism Spectrum Conditions ; Michael V. Lombardo, Simon Baron-Cohen, Matthew K. Belmonte, and Bhismadev Chakrabarti ; 56. Developmental disorders ; Yoko Kamio, Shozo Tobimatsu and Hiroki Fukui ; 57. The Asperger Syndrome ; Bruno Wicker and Marie Gonnot ; 58. Antisocial Personality Disorders ; Andrea Glenn and Adrian Raine ; 59. Psychopathy from the perspective of social and cognitive neuroscience ; James Blair ; 60. Alexythimia from the Affective Neuroscience Perspective ; Sylvie Berthoz ; 61. Theory of Mind Deficits in Neurological Patients ; Tal Shany-Ur and Simone Shamay-Tsoory ; Part Seven: Applications ; 62. The cognitive neuroscience of strategic thinking ; Meghana Bhatt and Colin F. Camerer ; 63. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of deception ; Daniel D. Langleben and Jonathan G. Hakun ; 64. Mutual Benefits of Using Humanoid Robots in Social Neuroscience ; Thierry Chaminade ; 65. The social brain in adolescence and the potential impact of social neuroscience on education ; Sarah-Jayne Blakemore ; 66. The Influence of Video Games on Social, Cognitive, and Affective Information Processing ; Kira Bailley, Robert West, and Craig Anderson ; Part Eight: Societal Significance ; 67. Ethical, legal and societal issues in social neuroscience. ; Martha J. Farah ; Part Nine: Conclusions ; 68. Epilogue ; John T. Cacioppo and Jean Decety