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Welcome to the companion website for The Student’s Guide to Social Neuroscience, Second Edition by Jamie Ward.
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Social neuroscience has vigorously established itself as one of the newest and most exciting sub-disciplines of psychology. Ward’s pioneering Student Guide is now updated, covering new insights in the biological basis of social behaviour and its relevance to everyday life. Down-to-earth and imaginatively linked with web-based materials, it can’t fail to inspire the next generation of students.
- Chris and Uta Frith, University College London
Praise for the previous edition:
I stopped using textbooks more than a decade ago, but that's about to change. Given that Ward's is the very first textbook focusing on social neuroscience, I am extremely impressed. It will be the best around for years to come. It is current, broad, and precise. The writing style will be accessible to undergraduates, graduates, and even professors. It is the perfect introduction to this exciting new field.
- Matthew D. Lieberman, University of California, Los Angeles
Social neuroscience is an expanding field that, by investigating the neural mechanisms that inform our behavior, explains our ability to recognize, understand, and interact with others. Concepts such as trust, revenge, empathy, prejudice, and love are now being explored and unraveled by neuroscientists. This engaging and cutting-edge text is an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples from contemporary research and a blend of different pedagogical features helping students engage with the material, including essay questions, summary and key points, and further reading suggestions.
The second edition of this groundbreaking text is thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the growing volume of evidence and theories in the field. Notable additions include a greater emphasis on genetics and hormones, and the expansion of topics such as cultural neuroscience, emotion regulation, biological markers of autism, power and status, social categorization of faces and people, and new accounts of mirror neuron functioning.
Richly illustrated in attractive full-color, with figures, boxes, and ‘real-world’ implications of research, this text is the ideal introduction to the subject for undergraduate and postgraduate students in fields such as psychology and neuroscience.
Jamie Ward is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, UK, and he is the Co-Director of Sussex Neuroscience. He has published over 100 scientific papers and several books including the Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience (now in its third edition) and The Frog who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses (now translated into three languages). He was the Founding Editor of Cognitive Neuroscience, a journal from Psychology Press.