The Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations:

Prejudice, can we cure it?
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-83494-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1897 g

The Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations; Prejudice can we cure it?” is a highly interdisciplinary book. It includes latest theories and research from: Social Psychology, Ethics, Psychopharmacology, as well as Social Neuroscience. The book is also based on the author’s team research. The book describes experimental studies which have suggested that fear of the out-group might play a role in prejudice. Amongst others, one experiment that received large media coverage will be illustrated; a study which found that the drug propranolol reduced racial bias. However, is there a “cure” for prejudice? But even if there were biological methods to reduce prejudice are there not ethical and medical problems associated with this? However, we are our brain; thus not only soul searching, but also a drug can change the core of a person.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terbeck, Sylvia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 The foundations of prejudice and discrimination.- 3 The Neuroscience of intergroup relations.- 4 Psychopharmacology and prejudice.- 5 Neuroethics of social enhancement.- 6 What should be done?

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sylvia Terbeck is a social neuroscientist and lecturer at Plymouth University (United Kingdom). She completed her PhD at Oxford University after her studies in Germany and Austria. Subsequently, she held research positions at Oxford, Bern (Switzerland) and University College London. She published multiple significant scientific papers and received research funding for her work. Dr Terbeck is a true believer in equality of all, which includes racial, sexual, religious as well as political opinions; promoting that everyone is an individual. In 2012 she received the Springer NeuroStar for the most socially discussed paper published in Neuroscience for Springer journals; A striving scientist, with innovative ambitions for science and society.