"This landmark volume provides state-of-the-art coverage of the burgeoning field of social neuroscience. The editors have done a superb job of bringing together an outstanding set of investigators working across levels of analysis to understand the social brain. This book will have great appeal to those who are interested in learning more about fundamental research on the neuroscientific understanding of social behavior."
-- Todd F. Heatherton, Champion International Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College

Social neuroscience uses the methodologies and tools developed to measure mental and brain function to study social cognition, emotion, and behavior. In this collection, John Cacioppo, Penny Visser, and Cynthia Pickett have brought together contributions from psychologists, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, and neurologists that focus on the neurobiological underpinnings of social information processing, particularly the mechanisms underlying "people thinking about thinking people."