The social brain : a developmental perspective / edited by Jean Decety.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Decety, Jean, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social perception.

Developmental psychology.

Evolutionary psychology.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This new volume brings together a range of empirical and theoretical views from both developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience, and cover a core set of questions and topics that concern the development of the social mind. The basic topics about the origins, development, and biological bases of the human social mind include, but are not limited to, face and voice recognition, attachment to others, reasoning and cognitive bias, group dynamics, theory of mind, moral evaluation, prosocial behavior, and social decision-making. Contributors from evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics will inform the included topics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I: Early social perception and cognition

Development of voice perception in the human brain

Building a face-space for social cognition

Principles and concepts in early moral cognition

Early social cognition: exploring the role of the medial prefrontal cortex

Foundations of imitation

The development of the social brain within a family context

II: Language and theory of mind. Infants’ early competence for language and symbols

Developing a theory of mind: are infants sensitive to how other people represent the world?

How do young children become moral agents? A developmental perspective

Understanding others’ minds and morals: progress and innovation of infant electrophysiology

Cognitive and neural correlates of children’s spontaneous verbal deception

III: Prosocial behavior. Multiple mechanisms of prosocial development

Selective prosocial behavior in early childhood

What do we (not) know about the genetics of empathy?

The development of children’s sharing behavior: recipients’ and givers’ characteristics

IV: Social categorization. The role of essentialism in children’s social judgments

Are humans born to hate? Three myths and three developmental lessons about the origins of social categorization and intergroup bias

V: Atypical social cognition. Toward a translational developmental social cognitive neuroscience of autism

Developmental origins of psychopathy

Morals, money, and risk taking from childhood to adulthood: the neurodevelopmental framework of fuzzy trace theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-35896-4

0-262-35897-2

OCLC:

1181846473