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Social Neuroscience and Human Relationships: How Social Experience Influences the Evolved Brain and Vice Versa
This lecture series was a component of a Winter Term Psychology Graduate Seminar Psych 808: Human relationships, evolution, and social neuroscience: A New Research Frontier in Social Psychology. The series was organized by Stephanie Brown, Jennifer Glass and Randolph Nesse and was sponsored by the ISR Research Center for Group Dynamics and the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. Over twenty years of research have demonstrated that interpersonal relationships have profound effects on health and well-being. The search for mechanisms that link social contact to health has stimulated an explosion of research that spans social psychology, health psychology, physiology, and evolutionary biology. In this course, we will examine interpersonal relations and we will ask whether these factors influence, or are influenced by, physiological processes (hormonal, immunological, cardiovascular) and health outcomes such as stress and depression. Because scholars are just beginning to examine and understand this topic through cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, this class offers a unique opportunity for students to be exposed to a developing field, in need of conceptual refinement, organization, and creative insight. Understanding the mechanisms and processes through which interpersonal relations affect physiological functioning and behavior promises to generate important theoretical questions and directions for future research.
Stephanie Brown, Institute for
Social Research, University of Michigan Jim Abelson, University
of Michigan Bert Uchino, University
of Utah Greg Miller, University
of British Columbia Karen Parker, Stanford
University Art Aron, State
University of New York Theresa Lee, University
of Michigan Alan Fiske, University
of California in Los Angeles Paul Zak, Claremont
Graduate University Sue Carter, University
of Illinois Lee Kirkpatrick,
College of William and Mary Peter Ubel, University
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