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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 7 July 2016

    • ISBN 9780199977925
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages256 pages
    • Size 155x236x17 mm
    • Weight 522 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume describes research supported by the John Templeton Foundation's Positive Neuroscience Project, aimed at illuminating the neural mechanisms that promote human flourishing. Topics include social bonds, altruism, creativity, and resilience.

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    Long description:

    How do we thrive in our behaviors and experiences? Positive neuroscience research illuminates the brain mechanisms that enable human flourishing. Supported by the John Templeton Foundation's Positive Neuroscience Project, which Martin E. P. Seligman established in 2008, Positive Neuroscience provides an intersection between neuroscience and positive psychology.

    In this edited volume, leading researchers describe the neuroscience of social bonding, altruism, and the capacities for resilience and creativity. Part I (Social Bonds) describes the mechanisms that enable humans to connect with one another. Part II (Altruism) focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying the human ability and willingness to confer costly benefits on others. Part III (Resilience and Creativity) examines the mechanisms by which human brains overcome adversity, create, and discover. Specific topics include: a newly discovered nerve type that appears to be specialized for emotional communication; the effects of parenting on the male brain; how human altruism differs from that of other primates; the neural features of extraordinary altruists who have donated kidneys to strangers; and distinctive patterns of brain wiring that endow some people with exceptional musical abilities. Accessible to a broad academic audience, from advanced undergraduates to senior scholars, these subjects have generated a fascinating and highly convergent set of ideas and results, shaping our understanding of human nature.

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    Table of Contents:

    Contributors
    Introducing Positive Neuroscience
    Joshua D. Greene and India Morrison
    Part I: Social Bonds
    1. Affective and Social Touch
    India Morrison
    2. The Neural Correlates of Individual Variation in Paternal Nurturance
    James K. Rilling and Jennifer Mascaro
    3. Toward a Neuroscience of Social Resonance
    Thalia Wheatley and Beau Sievers
    Part II: Altruism
    4. Prosociality as a form of reward-seeking
    Jamil Zaki and Jason Mitchell
    5. Is Human Prosocial Behavior Unique?: Insights and New Questions from Non-Human Primates
    Lindsey Drayton and Laurie Santos
    6. When Feeling and Doing Diverge: Neural and physiological correlates of the empathy-altruism divide
    Tony W. Buchanan and Stephanie D. Preston
    7. Amygdala Tuning Toward Self and Other
    Vincent Man, Daniel L. Ames, Alexander Todorov, and William A. Cunningham
    8. Towards a Neuroscience of Compassion: A brain systems-based model and research agenda
    Yoni K. Ashar, Jessica Andrews-Hanna, Tor D. Wager, and Sona Dimidjian
    9. Extraordinary Altruism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
    Abigail Marsh
    Part III: Resilience and Creativity
    10. Increasing Positive Emotion in Negative Contexts: Emotional Consequences, Neural Correlates, and Implications for Resilience
    Kateri McRae and Iris Mauss
    11. Could Meditation Modulate the Neurobiology of Learning Not to Fear?
    Britta Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar, and Mohammed Milad
    12. The Role of Brain Connectivity in Musical Experience
    Psyche Loui
    13. The Function of Positive Emotions in Exploration
    Hans Melo and Adam Anderson
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