Part of the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology Series
Human beings the world over are eager to form social bonds, and suffer grievously when these bonds are disrupted. Social connections contribute to our sense of meaning and feelings of vitality, on the one hand, and - at times - to our anguish and despair on the other.It is not surprising that the mechanisms underlying human connections have long interested researchers from diverse disciplines including social psychology, developmental psychology, communication studies, sociology, and neuroscience. Yet there is too little dialogue among these disciplines and too little integration of insights and findings.This fifth book in the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology aims to rectify that situation by providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge theory and research on social connections. The volume contains 21 chapters organised into four main sections: Brain (focusing on the neural underpinnings of social connections and the hormonal processes that contribute to forming connections)Infancy and Development (focusing especially on child-parent relationships)Dyadic Relationship (focusing especially on romantic and marital relationships)Group (considering both evolutionary and physiological bases of group processes)The integrative perspectives presented here are thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in the social nature of the human mind.
|Publication date:||30th December 2013|
|Publisher:||Magination Press, (American Psychological Association) an imprint of American Psychological Association|
|Categories:||Social theory, Neural networks & fuzzy systems, Social groups, Social, group or collective psychology, Human reproduction, growth & development, Child & developmental psychology,|
Mario Mikulincer, PhD, is a professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He has published five books and more than 280 scholarly journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes, and prosocial motives and behaviour.Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, a social and personality psychologist, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Before moving there, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University ...More About Mario Mikulincer