By Joshua D. Greene, India Morrison, Martin E. P. Seligman

How will we thrive in our behaviors and reports? confident neuroscience learn illuminates the mind mechanisms that allow human flourishing. Supported by way of the toilet Templeton Foundation's confident Neuroscience venture, which Martin E. P. Seligman proven in 2008, confident Neuroscience presents an intersection among neuroscience and confident psychology.

In this edited quantity, best researchers describe the neuroscience of social bonding, altruism, and the capacities for resilience and creativity. half I (Social Bonds) describes the mechanisms that permit people to connect to each other. half II (Altruism) specializes in the neural mechanisms underlying the human skill and willingness to confer expensive merits on others. half III (Resilience and Creativity) examines the mechanisms in which human brains conquer adversity, create, and become aware of. particular issues comprise: a newly came upon nerve variety that looks to be really good for emotional communique; the results of parenting at the male mind; how human altruism differs from that of different primates; the neural positive factors of outstanding altruists who've donated kidneys to strangers; and detailed styles of mind wiring that endow a few individuals with unheard of musical skills. available to a large educational viewers, from complicated undergraduates to senior students, those matters have generated a desirable and hugely convergent set of principles and effects, shaping our knowing of human nature.

Show description

Read or Download Positive neuroscience PDF

Best cognitive psychology books

The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

The Cambridge instruction manual of Creativity is a entire scholarly instruction manual on creativity from the main revered psychologists, researchers, and educators. This instruction manual serves either as a radical creation to the sphere of creativity and as a useful reference and present resource of vital details.

Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings

Scientists from many disciplines, together with physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, give a contribution to the learn of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the technology of the human brain and of ways humans procedure info, is on the center of empirical investigations into the character of brain and thought.

This anthology relies at the assumption that cognitive psychology is at middle empirical philosophy. some of the center questions on proposal, language, notion, reminiscence, and data of different people's minds have been for hundreds of years the area of philosophy. The booklet starts with the philosophical foundations of inquiry into the character of brain and suggestion, specifically the writings of Descartes, after which covers the crucial themes of cognitive psychology together with reminiscence, consciousness, and determination making.

The e-book organizes a frightening quantity of knowledge, underlining the necessities, whereas additionally introducing readers to the ambiguities and controversies of study. it really is prepared thematically and comprises many themes no longer generally taught in cognition classes, together with human components and ergonomics, evolutionary psychology, song cognition, and experimental design.

The members contain Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahneman, Jay McClelland, Donald Norman, Michael Posner, Stephen Palmer, Eleanor Rosch, John Searle, Roger Shepard, and Anne Treisman.

Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (2nd Edition)

Notice basic but robust steps you could take to beat emotional distress--and think happier, calmer, and extra convinced. This life-changing e-book has already helped greater than a million readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's optimal kinds of psychotherapy--to triumph over melancholy, nervousness, panic assaults, anger, guilt, disgrace, low vainness, consuming issues, substance abuse, and courting difficulties.

Principles of Visual Attention: Linking Mind and Brain

The character of awareness is among the oldest and so much primary difficulties in psychology. an immense quantity of analysis has been produced in this topic within the final part century, specifically on cognizance within the visible modality, yet a common clarification has remained elusive. Many nonetheless view consciousness learn as a box that's essentially fragmented.

Extra resources for Positive neuroscience

Example text

C. (1977). Interactions between parents and infants, and development of independence in common marmoset (Callithrix-​Jacchus). Animal Behaviour, 25(4), 811–​812.  E. (2000). Paternal hamsters mechanically assist the delivery, consume amniotic fluid and placenta, remove fetal membranes, and provide parental care during the birth process. Hormones and Behavior, 37(2), 116–​125.  J. (1981). The role of the father: An anthropological perspective. In M. ), The role of the father in child development (pp.

Angry, for example, was fast, dissonant/​spiky, and downward for both the US and Cambodian participants. Moreover, this consistency was crossmodal as well: Participants made angry music and movement the same way. Each emotion had a particular dynamic signature that was the same across modalities and across cultures. Shared Structure, Shared Hardware Any automatic perceptual correspondence, as in the shared structure between music and movement, suggests an underlying neural correspondence. Fujioka et al.

H. (1968). Generosity in nusery school boys. Child Development, 39, 755–​765. , & Bremberg, S. (2008). Fathers’ involvement and children’s developmental outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies. Acta Paediatrica, 97(2), 153–​158. , … Di Salle, F. (2003). Differential sex-​independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents. Biological Psychiatry, 54(12), 1367–​1375. , & Jenny, C. (1995). Abusive head trauma: The relationship of perpetrators to their victims.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.27 of 5 – based on 10 votes