Positive Neuroscience

Joshua D. Greene, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty, and the director of the Moral Cognition Lab at Harvard University. India Morrison, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at Linköping University, Sweden, and co-founder of the Group for Research in Affective Somatosensation and Pain (GRASP). Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, is Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology, and Director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP).

Contributors
Introducing Positive Neuroscience
Joshua D. Greene and India Morrison


Part I: Social Bonds

1. Affective and Social Touch
India Morrison


2. The Neural Correlates of Individual Variation in Paternal Nurturance
James K. Rilling and Jennifer Mascaro

3. Toward a Neuroscience of Social Resonance
Thalia Wheatley and Beau Sievers



Part II: Altruism

4. Prosociality as a form of reward-seeking
Jamil Zaki and Jason Mitchell

5. Is Human Prosocial Behavior Unique?: Insights and New Questions from Non-Human Primates
Lindsey Drayton and Laurie Santos

6. When Feeling and Doing Diverge: Neural and physiological correlates of the empathy-altruism divide
Tony W. Buchanan and Stephanie D. Preston

7. Amygdala Tuning Toward Self and Other
Vincent Man, Daniel L. Ames, Alexander Todorov, and William A. Cunningham


8. Towards a Neuroscience of Compassion: A brain systems-based model and research agenda
Yoni K. Ashar, Jessica Andrews-Hanna, Tor D. Wager, and Sona Dimidjian

9. Extraordinary Altruism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Abigail Marsh



Part III: Resilience and Creativity

10. Increasing Positive Emotion in Negative Contexts: Emotional Consequences, Neural Correlates, and Implications for Resilience
Kateri McRae and Iris Mauss

11. Could Meditation Modulate the Neurobiology of Learning Not to Fear?
Britta Hölzel, Sara W. Lazar, and Mohammed Milad

12. The Role of Brain Connectivity in Musical Experience
Psyche Loui

13. The Function of Positive Emotions in Exploration
Hans Melo and Adam Anderson



Index