About this Research Topic
Socio-Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines knowledge from the natural and social sciences to deeply understand the bidirectional relations between social interaction/experiences and the human brain. This research field is promising as there is increasing interest in understanding social and individual behaviors from the perspective of all sciences in dialogue, including neuroscience. Such dialogue can be essential to better comprehend why and how individuals behave as they do, with violence or with care and solidarity, in certain social situations. Those understandings can inform effective interventions to most pressing social problems, such as school learning and motivation, peer group dynamics in adolescence and risky behaviors, abusive relationships such as bullying and child sexual abuse and sexual harassment, or sexual-affective desire and gender violence victimization, quality of social relationships and health outcomes, discrimination, etc.
Given the urgency to bring practical solutions to what constitutes today’s risks for positive human development, individual and social behaviors that reproduce and increase those risks as well as individual and social behaviors that imply a positive alternative, should be investigated. Those investigations need to account for the influence of the social context (culture, social structures, communicative acts, etc) in brain’s functioning (reward system, emotional responses, attention, etc), as well as for how the socially shaped brain influences social interactions and social context.
This Research Topic seeks to gather scientific contributions that expand our understanding of how social interactions and discourses may shape neural circuity, mental models, and subsequent behaviors involved in most recurrent social problems that hinder positive individual and social development. Likewise, it aims to collect socio-neuroscience analyses that shed light upon how social interactions and discourses can modulate the brain to support behaviors that cultivate excellent human relationships that strengthen individual and social development.
Socio-Neuroscience examinations of evidence-based solutions that have a social impact, that is, that can mitigate urgent global social problems and thus improve individual and social well-being, are of interest to this Research Topic.
The Research Topic welcomes original experimental articles, commentaries and reviews, and methods addressing these concerns for human populations in diverse cultures.
The following themes may be used as guidance, but additional, relevant themes will be considered:
- Motivation and reward in different types of social learning experiences, from school learning to learning attraction patterns for sexual-affective relationships.
- Memory construction and reconstruction processes and their role in quality and abusive relationships.
- Adverse life experiences, toxic stress, and mental and physical health outcomes.
- Socioneuroscientific analyses of Successful actions and interventions in diverse social areas (education, health, work, etc.) for overcoming social problems related to violent behaviors.
- Socioneuroscientific analyses of quality human relationships that mitigate the negative consequences of adverse social interactions and are protective developmental contexts.
Given the urgency to bring practical solutions to what constitutes today’s risks for positive human development, individual and social behaviors that reproduce and increase those risks as well as individual and social behaviors that imply a positive alternative, should be investigated. Those investigations need to account for the influence of the social context (culture, social structures, communicative acts, etc) in brain’s functioning (reward system, emotional responses, attention, etc), as well as for how the socially shaped brain influences social interactions and social context.
This Research Topic seeks to gather scientific contributions that expand our understanding of how social interactions and discourses may shape neural circuity, mental models, and subsequent behaviors involved in most recurrent social problems that hinder positive individual and social development. Likewise, it aims to collect socio-neuroscience analyses that shed light upon how social interactions and discourses can modulate the brain to support behaviors that cultivate excellent human relationships that strengthen individual and social development.
Socio-Neuroscience examinations of evidence-based solutions that have a social impact, that is, that can mitigate urgent global social problems and thus improve individual and social well-being, are of interest to this Research Topic.
The Research Topic welcomes original experimental articles, commentaries and reviews, and methods addressing these concerns for human populations in diverse cultures.
The following themes may be used as guidance, but additional, relevant themes will be considered:
- Motivation and reward in different types of social learning experiences, from school learning to learning attraction patterns for sexual-affective relationships.
- Memory construction and reconstruction processes and their role in quality and abusive relationships.
- Adverse life experiences, toxic stress, and mental and physical health outcomes.
- Socioneuroscientific analyses of Successful actions and interventions in diverse social areas (education, health, work, etc.) for overcoming social problems related to violent behaviors.
- Socioneuroscientific analyses of quality human relationships that mitigate the negative consequences of adverse social interactions and are protective developmental contexts.
Keywords: socioneuroscience, individual behaviors, social behaviors, intimate relationships, school learning, quality human relationships, human relationships, emotion, learning, violence, social interaction, successful action, effective intervention
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