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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.

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Chapter 1: Exploring the borderlands of neuroscience and social science

Part I - Neuroscientific research on social cognition

Chapter 2: Valuing others: evidence from economics, developmental psychology, and neurobiology

Chapter 3: Bias and control in social decision-making

Chapter 4: Neurobiological approaches to interpersonal coordination: Achievements and pitfalls Chapter 5: The social neuroscience of attachment

Chapter 6: Mindreading in altruists and psychopaths

Chapter 7: From primary emotions to the spectrum of affect: An evolutionary neurosociology of the emotions

Chapter 8: Moral cognition and moral emotions

Chapter 9: On the cognitive (neuro)science of moral cognition: utilitarianism, deontology and the ´fragmentation of value´

Chapter 10: The social/neuro science: Bridging or polarizing culture and biology?

Part II - Impact of social neuroscience in social spheres

Chapter 11: Dementia and social neuroscience: Historical and cultural perspectives

Chapter 12: Clinical studies of social neuroscience: A lesion model approach

Chapter 13: Psychotherapy and social neuroscience: forging links together

Chapter 14: The brain in the public space: social neuroscience and the media

Part III - Integration of social and neuroscientific insights

Chapter 15: Electrophysiological approaches in the study of the influence of childhood poverty on cognition

Chapter 16: The cultural neuroscience of socioeconomic status

Chapter 17: Social ties, health and wellbeing: A literature review and model

Part IV - Philosophical contributions on theoretical, methodological, and ethical questions

Chapter 18: The self-domesticated animal and its study

Chapter 19: How is our self related to its brain? Neurophilosophical concepts

Chapter 20: Enaction and neurophenomenology in language

Chapter 21: A pluralist framework for the philosophy of social neuroscience

Chapter 22: Social neuroscience and neuroethics: a fruitful synergy

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