Social Neuroscience Links
Social Neuroscience is a relatively new approach to human behaviour, but already there are several websites on the subject:
shortcuts to groups of links:
- Arenas
- Related Societies and Groups
- Social Neuroscience at Universities (USA)
- Social Neuroscience at Universities (UK)
- Psychophysiology at Universities
- Social Neuroscience in the Media
Arenas
The Arenas, hosted by Psychology Press and Taylor & Francis, are invaluable resources for researchers, instructors and students in key subject areas. Each Arena brings together books and journals in that area, as well as providing regularly updated links to related associations and societies, and to forthcoming events and conferences.
A brand new arena to specifically cover Cognitive Neuroscience. This new website provides details on all of our relevant books and journals (including "Social Neuroscience"), as well as an interactive 'Google-Map' showing forthcoming Cognitive Neuroscience conferences around the world and the first chapter of Jamie Ward's textbook "The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience" available to read free online, providing the definitive introduction to this subject area.
Subjects covered include: Attention, Cognition and Emotion, Cognitive Neuroscience, Connectionist Models, Creativity, Imagery, Learning, Mathematical Cognition, Memory, Psychology of Language and Reading, Thinking and Reasoning, and Visual Cognition and Perception.
Subjects covered include: Attitudes and Persuasion, Cross Cultural Psychology, Gender Identity and Sex Roles, Group Processes, Intergroup Behaviour, Interpersonal Processes, Non-verbal Communication, Personality, Political Psychology, Prejudice, Self and Social Identity, and Social Cognition.
Related Societies and Groups
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
The AAN was established in 1948, and is an international professional association of nearly 19,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals dedicated to providing the best possible care for patients with neurological disorders.
American Academy of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN)
The AANN is committed to the advancement of neuroscience nursing as a specialty through the development and support of nurses to promote excellence in patient care. As the leading authority in neuroscience nursing, it inspires passion in nurses and creates the future for the specialty.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The AAAS was founded in 1848, and is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, http://www.sciencemag.org as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
The CNS is committed to the development of mind and brain research aimed at investigating the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of cognition. The term cognitive neuroscience has now been with us for almost three decades, and identifies an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of thought.
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)
The EAESP aims to promote excellence in European research in the field of social psychology. To this end it sets up a large variety of activities and it creates publication outlets for significant research contributions. As such it contributes to the scientific communication among European social psychologists as well as between Europe and Social Psychology in the world at large.
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS)
EBBS was founded in 1968. Its purpose is the exchange of information between European scientists interested in the relationship of brain mechanisms and behaviour. To this avail the Society organises a General Meeting every year.
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
FENS was founded in 1998 at the Forum of European Neuroscience in Berlin and is the successor organisation of ENA, the European Neuroscience Association. It represents a large number of national European neuroscience societies and several monodisciplinary societies.
Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS)
FEPS was founded during the Regional Meeting of IUPS in Prague in 1991. It now comprises 27 Constituent Societies. Its main aim is to promote and foster the exchange and diffusion of concepts and information between physiologists and the societies of physiology in the European region.
Neuroscience and Society Network
A forum for social science scholarship on the new brain sciences. Despite evidence that the neurosciences are changing our understandings of personal and social life, and predictions that these transformations will intensify in coming years, the social study of these fields of biomedicine has received only marginal attention. The Neuroscience and Society Network (NSN) has been formed in order to provide a venue in which researchers working on issues related to the neurosciences (e.g. psychopharmacology, behavioural genetics, biological psychiatry, neuroimaging, neuroethics) can exchange and develop ideas.
The Society of of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
The SESP is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology. Currently, SESP has more than 750 members throughout the world. Membership is by nomination and is open to any self-identified social psychologist, regardless of disciplinary affiliation.
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
The SPSP was founded in 1974 when the leadership of Division 8 of the American Psychological Association decided to incorporate as an independent organization. Today, SPSP includes more than 4,000 members from around the world who study a wide array of subfields.
The Society for Neuroscience is a non-profit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. Neuroscience includes the study of brain development, sensation and perception, learning and memory, movement, sleep, stress, aging and neurological and psychiatric disorders. It also includes the molecules, cells and genes responsible for nervous system functioning. Recognizing the tremendous potential for the study of the brain and nervous system as a separate field, the Society was formed in 1970. It has grown from 500 members to more than 36,000 and is the world's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain.
WIN was founded in 1980 as an international organization with the chief purpose of fostering the development and career advancement of women scientists, particularly in the field of neuroscience. For 25 years, it has worked to provide opportunities for women in neuroscience at all levels.
Social Neuroscience at Universities (USA)
University of Chicago - Social Neuroscience Laboratory
The Social Neuroscience Laboratory is located on the top floor of the Institute for Mind and Biology at The University of Chicago. We call upon a wide range of levels of analysis and a diverse array of methodologies, including experimental social psychology, social cognition, surface event-related brain potential morphological and topographical analyses, functional magnetic resonance imaging, autonomic psychophysiology, surface electromyography, startle blink modulation, behavioral and social endocrinology to address questions about the mechanisms underlying complex social behavior.
University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
The mission of the Center is to investigate the interaction of mental and biological mechanisms using multi-level integrative analyses including social, behavioral, psychological, neural, physiological, cellular molecular, and genetic mechanisms. The focus of the Center is the operation of these mechanisms in the context of a broad range of social functions and dysfunctions.
Georgia State University - Social Neuroscience Laboratory
The Social Neuroscience Laboratory focuses on the reciprocal influences of the body and mind in the context of human social behavior. With this aim, lab members study emotional, cognitive, social, and physiological processes using a variety of methods. At present, the laboratory is capable of recording several autonomic measures (e.g., electrocardiography, skin conductance, respiration) as well as facial muscle movements (i.e., facial electromyography) while participants perform tasks on a computer, watch a video, or interact with another person. In addition, we will soon be conducting projects that will involve functional neuroimaging, electroencephalography (EEG), eye tracking, robotics, and non-human primates.
University of Colorado - Social Neuroscience Lab
The CU Social Neuroscience Lab is a research lab addressing social psychological issues using a multi-level perspective that integrates psychological and physiological measures. We focus in particular on issues related to prejudice, affect, attitudes, and emotion.
University of North Carolina - Social Neuroscience Lab
The UNC Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is devoted to examining research questions of theoretical importance to social and cognitive psychology using a combination of psychological, behavioral, and physiological measures. An overview of the measures and research methods typically used in our research can be found here. Currently, the lab is primarily devoted to the study of electrophysiological activity related to person perception (i.e., stereotypes, prejudice, impression-formation, expectancies), aggression, media violence, and alcohol effects on cognition.
University of Washington - Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
The academic domain of social cognition attempts to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. Social cognition operates in dynamic interpersonal behavior, i.e., it involves at least two agents who represent each other. However, much of social cognition occurs at an implicit (automatic) level.
University of California - Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Most of the research ... involves a social cognitive neuroscience (SCN) approach... Social cognitive neuroscience focuses on how the human brain carries out social information processing. Practically speaking, this means that we use functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and neuropsychology to test new hypotheses regarding social cognition or old questions whose answers continue to elude us.
Social Neuroscience at Universities (UK)
University of Aberdeen - Social Cognition Laboratory
Research in the Social Cognition Laboratory (SCL) centres around the investigation of the processes that are involved in social interaction and in determining the psychological states of other people. Using a combination of behavioural studies, the latest neuroimaging techniques and work involving clinical populations, we aim to try and understand and explain many of the phenomena that are central in people's everyday lives. We are principally interested in examining theory of mind, face processing, the self, and consciousness, however, our research extends into a wide array of other themes.
Cardiff University - Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series (Sept 04 - Oct 06)
Located in Cardiff University's School of Psychology (ranked as one of the UK's top psychology school by the RAE 2001 review), the new Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) builds on existing strengths of research groups and offers a world-class facility based around complementary applications of cognitive and clinical-based research. To highlight and encourage research in these potential growth areas, the School of Psychology is organising a prestigious seminar series. The series will involve presentations and visits from eminent scholars on contemporary developments within cognitive, social and clinical neuroscience research.
University College London - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
The ICN is an interdisciplinary research institute at UCL. It studies how mental processes relate to the human brain, in health and disease, for adults and children. The ICN fosters an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, by bringing together researchers from the Psychology Department, the Institute of Neurology, the Anatomy Department, and the Human Communication Department, and by using a wide range of methods.
University of Sheffield - Psychology Department Research
There are longstanding strengths in cognitive neuroscience that will be integrated via the appointment of Larry Parsons, who studies the neural basis of cognition, perception, and motor behaviour in humans. Specifically, he investigates the brain basis of the following processes: of deduction and probabilistic reasoning; of music perception, cognition, performance, and invention: and of visual-spatial reasoning and mental imagery. Larry Parsons is also on the editorial board of Social Neuroscience.
Psychophysiology at Universities
University of Michigan - Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab
We adopt a multifaceted approach to studying emotions, by investigating the interplay between autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, facial muscle activity, and subjective experiences of emotion. Our lab is equipped with extensive physiological recording devices, several testing computers, and video recording and editing equipment.
University of California - Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory
The Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory is a research laboratory located at the University of California, Berkeley. There they study human emotion by examining the subjective experience of emotion, emotional behavior, and physiological reactivity to emotional stimuli.
Oberlin College - Oberlin Psychophysiology Laboratory
Oberlin's Psychophysiology Laboratory provides students with classroom and research experiences that are rarely available to undergraduates. The lab occupies a suite in Severance consisting of a testing room and a control room (Lab B), and a data analysis room (Lab A).
Stanford University - Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory
The research at this Laboratory is funded by NIH and NSF. Ongoing research projects include: The affective consequences of emotion regulation; the neural bases of cognitive reappraisal; the coherence of emotion; personality, emotion, and emotion regulation; emotion regulation and social functioning; emotion dysregulation in Social Phobia and Major Depressive Disorder; the developmental trajectory of emotion regulation; the psychophysiology of self-conscious emotions.
Social Neuroscience in the Media
Where belief is born - Alok Jha in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
...The work, published last month in Nature Neuroscience, is the latest in a rapidly growing field of research called "social neuroscience", which draws together psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists all studying the neural basis for human social interaction...
At the frontier of science - Beth Azar in Monitor on Psychology
...And, for years, researchers such as University of Chicago social psychologist John Cacioppo, PhD, have been working in what he termed "social neuroscience," using techniques such as event-related potentials, molecular biology and autonomic, neuroendocrine and immune responses to study phenomena including attitudes, prejudice and social conflict and connectedness...
The past five years have seen the emergence of a field of research that has far-reaching potential. Known as Social Neuroscience, this new domain of study is set to spearhead an assault on what has been described as science's final frontier: understanding, even decoding the complex interconnected web that mediates between the brain, and the mind and human behaviour. Already it is making us think again about humanity’s understanding of itself and what this means for the norms and dynamics of how we behave in society.
Brave New Brain - Steven Rose in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
We are living through "the decade of the mind" in which the new sciences of brain and behaviour are offering to explore and explain the inner recesses of our thoughts and actions. The scale and promise of the new brain sciences is extraordinary...
Facing up to racial fears all in the mind - Tim Radford in The Guardian (UK Newspaper)
Photographs of black faces trigger the brain's "alarm button" in almost two-thirds of both white and black people, according to the results of a study by American neuroscientists published today...
