Positive Neuroscience

Informationen zum Autor Joshua D. Greene, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty, and the director of the Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University.India Morrison, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at Linköping University, Sweden, and co-founder of the Group for Research in Affective Somatosensation and Pain (GRASP).Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, is Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology, and Director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Index ...

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Joshua D. Greene, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty, and the director of the Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University. India Morrison, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at Linköping University, Sweden, and co-founder of the Group for Research in Affective Somatosensation and Pain (GRASP). Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, is Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology, and Director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP).

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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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• 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

• Index