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Positive Neuroscience Positive Neuroscience EDITED BY JOSHUA D. GREENE INDIA MORRISON MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Greene, Joshua David, 1974– editor. | Morrison, India, editor. | Seligman, Martin E. P., editor. Title: Positive neuroscience / edited by Joshua D. Greene, India Morrison, and Martin E. P. Seligman. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015041438 (print) | LCCN 2015044606 (ebook) | ISBN 9780199977925 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780199977932 (UPDF) | ISBN 9780199977949 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Affective neuroscience. | Neuropsychology. | Positive psychology. | Social psychology. Classification: LCC QP401 .P68 2016 (print) | LCC QP401 (ebook) | DDC 612.8—d c23 LC record available at http://l ccn.loc.gov/2 015041438 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Sheridan, USA CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Joshua D. Greene and India Morrison PART I Social Bonds 1. Affective and Social Touch 7 India Morrison 2. The Neural Correlates of Individual Variation in Paternal Nurturance 21 James K. Rilling and Jennifer Mascaro 3. Toward a Neuroscience of Social Resonance 37 Thalia Wheatley and Beau Sievers PART II Altruism 4. Prosociality as a Form of Reward Seeking 57 Jamil Zaki and Jason P. Mitchell 5. Is Human Prosocial Behavior Unique? Insights and New Questions From Nonhuman Primates 73 Lindsey A. Drayton and Laurie R. Santos 6. When Feeling and Doing Diverge: Neural and Physiological Correlates of the Empathy– Altruism Divide 89 Tony W. Buchanan and Stephanie D. Preston 7. Amygdala Tuning Toward Self and Other 105 Vincent Man, Daniel L. Ames, Alexander Todorov, and William A. Cunningham vi CONTENTS 8. Toward a Neuroscience of Compassion: A Brain Systems– Based Model and Research Agenda 125 Yoni K. Ashar, Jessica R. Andrews- Hanna, Sona Dimidjian, and Tor D. Wager 9. Extraordinary Altruism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective 143 Abigail A. Marsh PART III Resilience and Creativity 10. Increasing Positive Emotion in Negative Contexts: Emotional Consequences, Neural Correlates, and Implications for Resilience 159 Kateri McRae and Iris B. Mauss 11. Could Meditation Modulate the Neurobiology of Learning Not to Fear? 175 Britta K. Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar, and Mohammed R. Milad 12. The Role of Brain Connectivity in Musical Experience 191 Psyche Loui 13. The Function of Positive Emotions in Exploration 209 Hans L. Melo and Adam K. Anderson Index 235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research described in these pages was supported by the Positive Neuroscience Project, spearheaded by Martin E. P. Seligman through the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center and supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. CONTRIBUTORS Daniel L. Ames, University of California Los Angeles Adam K. Anderson, Cornell University Jessica R. Andrews- Hanna, University of Colorado Boulder Yoni K. Ashar, University of Colorado Boulder Tony W. Buchanan, St. Louis University William A. Cunningham, University of Toronto Sona Dimidjian, University of Colorado Boulder Lindsey A. Drayton, Yale University Joshua D. Greene, Harvard University Britta K. Hölzel, Harvard Medical School Sara W. Lazar, Harvard Medical School Psyche Loui, Wesleyan University Vincent Man, University of Toronto Abigail A. Marsh, Georgetown University Jennifer Mascaro, Emory University Iris B. Mauss, University of California Berkeley Kateri McRae, University of Denver Hans L. Melo, University of Toronto Mohammed R. Milad, Harvard Medical School Jason P. Mitchell, Harvard University India Morrison, Linköping University Stephanie D. Preston, University of Michigan James K. Rilling, Emory University Laurie R. Santos, Yale University Martin E. P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania
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