Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief overview of social neuroscience / Eddie Harmon-Jones and Piotr Winkielman -- The importance of emotion--social cognition interactions for social functioning : insights from orbitofrontal cortex / Jennifer S. Beer -- Neurobiology of emotion recognition : current evidence for shared substrates / Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs -- Ten years of research with the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) revisited / Brigitte M. Kudielka, Dirk H. Hellhammer, and Clemens Kirschbaum -- I know how you feel : social and emotional information processing in the brain / Catherine J. Norris and John T. Cacioppo -- How thinking controls feeling : a social cognitive neuroscience approach / Kevin N. Ochsner -- Asymmetrical frontal cortical activity, affective valence, and motivational direction / Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Reward : neural circuitry for social valuation / Brian Knutson and G. Elliott Wimmer -- A biobehavioral model of implicit power motivation arousal, reward, and frustration / Oliver C. Schultheiss -- Vigilant and avoidant responses to angry facial expressions : dominance and submission motives / Jack van Honk and Dennis J.L.G. Schutter --

Attitudes and evaluation : toward a component process framework / William A. Cunningham and Marcia K. Johnson -- A social cognitive neuroscience model of human empathy / Jean Decety -- Processing dynamics as a source of affective and cognitive feelings / Tedra A. Fazendeiro, Troy Chenier, and Piotr Winkielman -- The X- and C-systems : the neural basis of automatic and controlled social cognition / Matthew D. Lieberman -- An evolutionary perspective on domain specificity in social intelligence / Valerie E. Stone -- Mechanisms for the regulation of intergroup responses : insights from a social neuroscience approach / David M. Amodio, Patricia G. Devine, and Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Social cognitive neuroscience of person perception : a selective review focused on the event-related brain potential / Bruce D. Bartholow and Cheryl L. Dickter -- Social neuroscience and social perception : new perspectives on categorization, prejudice, and stereotyping / Tiffany A. Ito, Eve Willadsen-Jensen, and Joshua Correll -- Neuropeptides and the protective effects of social bonds / C. Sue Carter -- The quiet revolution of existential neuroscience / Marco Iacoboni -- Affiliative responses to stress : a social neuroscience model / Shelley E. Taylor and Gian C. Gonzaga -- The social neuroscience of relationships : an examination of health-relevant pathways / Bert N. Uchino ... [et al.].