Absher J.R., Cloutier J. Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. — 389 p.Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character covers the science of combining brain imaging with other analytical techniques for use in understanding cognition, behavior, consciousness, memory, language, visual perception, emotional control, and other human attributes. Multidimensional brain imaging research has led to a greater understanding of character traits such as honesty, generosity, truthfulness, and foresight previously unachieved by quantitative mapping. This book summarizes the latest brain imaging research pertaining to character with structural and functional human brain imaging in both normal individuals and those with brain disease or disorder, including psychiatric disorders. By reviewing and synthesizing the latest structural and functional brain imaging research related to character, this book situates itself into the larger framework of cognitive neuroscience, psychiatric neuroimaging, related fields of research, and a wide range of academic fields, such as politics, psychology, medicine, education, law, and religion.
Provides a novel innovative reference on the emerging use of neuroimaging to reveal the biological substrates of character, such as optimism, honesty, generosity, and othersFeatures chapters from leading physicians and researchers in the fieldContains full-color text that includes both an overview of multiple disciplines and a detailed review of modern neuroimaging tools as they are applied to study human characterPresents an integrative volume with far-reaching implications for guiding future imaging research in the social, psychological and medical sciences, and for applying these findings to a wide range of non-clinical disciplines such as law, politics, and religionConnects brain structure and function to human character and integrates modern neuroimaging techniques and other research methods for this purposeList of ContributorsHypersexuality and Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character
Approach/Avoidance
Integrating Personality/Character Neuroscience with Network Analysis
Genetics, Brain, and Personality: Searching for Intermediate Phenotypes
Anxiety and Harm Avoidance
Impulsiveness and Inhibitory Mechanisms
The Neuroscience of Social Vision
Social Vision: At the Intersection of Vision and Person Perception
Neuroimaging Investigations of Social Status and Social Hierarchies
Cognitive Neuroscience of Self-Reflection
The Neural Basis of Frustration State
Emotional Learning and Regulation in Social Situations
Emotion and Aging: The Impact of Emotion on Attention, Memory, and Face Recognition in Late Adulthood
Cultural Neuroscience of Moral Reasoning and Decision-Making
Empathy
Honesty
The Henchman’s Brain: Neuropsychological Implications of Authoritarianism and Prejudice
The Neural Mechanisms of Prejudice Intervention
Political Neuroscience
Science in Society: Neuroscience and Lay Understandings of Self and Identity
Toward a Neuroscience of Wisdom,