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Recently, neuroscientists have presented new research which has a direct impact on many areas of Social Psychology. In this innovative volume, the author explores the nexus of Social Psychology and Neuroscience with relation to: -The Human "Self" -The Social Nature of the Mind -Socialization and Language Acquisition -Role-Taking/Theory of Mind -Consciousness -Intersubjectivity -Balanced Social Constructionism -Human Agency -The Effect of Emotion on Rational Decision-Making This groundbreaking work integrates areas of George Herbert Mead's social behaviorism with current neuroscience. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how current work on mirror neurons supports the basic tenets of the American pragmatists' focus on the priority of motor behavior. .

Neurosciences -- Social aspects. --- Neurosciences --- Medicine --- Sociology & Social History --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Neurology --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Social sciences. --- Neurosciences. --- Sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Social theory --- Social sciences

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"The image of the addict in popular culture combines victimhood and moral failure; we sympathize with addicts in films and novels because of their suffering and their hard-won knowledge. And yet actual scientific knowledge about addiction tends to undermine this cultural construct. In What Is Addiction? leading addiction researchers from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, philosophy, economics, and other fields survey the latest findings in addiction science. They discuss such questions as whether addiction is one kind of condition, or several; if addiction is neurophysiological, psychological, or social, or incorporates aspects of all of these; to what extent addicts are responsible for their problems, and how this affects health and regulatory policies; and whether addiction is determined by inheritance or environment or both. The chapter authors discuss the possibility of a unifying basis for different addictions (considering both substance addiction and pathological gambling), offering both neurally and neuroscientifically grounded accounts as well as discussions of the social context of addiction. There can be no definitive answer yet to the question posed by the title of this book; but these essays demonstrate an advance over the simplistic conception embedded in popular culture."--Jacket.

Cognitive neuroscience. --- Compulsive behavior. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Neurosciences -- Social aspects. --- Substance abuse. --- Neurosciences --- Social aspects. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Addictive behavior --- Behavior, Compulsive --- Compulsion (Psychology) --- Abuse of substances --- Addiction, Substance --- Chemical dependence --- Chemical dependency --- Substance addiction --- Substance dependence --- Substance-related disorders --- Substance use disorders --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Cognitive science --- Neuropsychology --- Impulse --- Psychology, Pathological --- Obsessive-compulsive disorder --- Drug addiction. --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- Addiction to drugs --- Drug dependence --- Drug dependency --- Drug habit --- Narcotic addiction --- Narcotic habit --- Narcotics addiction --- Drug abuse