Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Richard P. Ebstein, Mikhail Monakhov, Poh San Lai, andSimone G. Shamay-Tsoory
PART 1 EMPATHY: NEURAL BASES AND GENETIC CORRELATES19
1.1 Genes Related to Autistic Traits and Empathy 21
Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Simon Baron-Cohen
1.2 The Behavioral Genetics of Human Pair Bonding 37
Hasse Walum and Lars Westberg
1.3 Brain Networks Supporting Empathy 47
Martin Schulte-Rüther and Ellen Greimel
1.4 The Human Mirror Neuron System and Social Cognition 63
Sook-Lei Liew and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
1.5 Motivational Aspects of Future Thinking in the VentromedialPrefrontal Cortex 81
Arnaud D'Argembeau
PART 2 MORAL NEUROSCIENCE AND EMOTION 91
2.1 Contributions of the Prefrontal Cortex to Social Cognitionand Moral Judgment Processes 93
Chad E. Forbes, Joshua C. Poore, and Jordan Grafman
2.2 Emotion and Moral Cognition 111
Michael Koenigs
2.3 The Neuroanatomical Basis of Moral Cognition and Emotion123
Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, and Jorge Moll
2.4 Envy and Schadenfreude: The Neural Correlates of CompetitiveEmotions 139
Jonathan Dvash and Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
PART 3 Genes and Decision Making 157
3.1 The Somatic Marker Framework and the Neurological Basis ofDecision Making 159
Antoine Bechara
3.2 A Model of the Initial Stages of Drug Abuse: FromReinforcement Learning to Social Contagion 185
Gilly Koritzky, Adi Luria, and Eldad Yechiam
3.3 Extrinsic Effects and Models of Dominance HierarchyFormation 203
Matthew Druen and Lee Alan Dugatkin
3.4 Complex Social Cognition and the Appreciation of SocialNorms in Psychiatric Disorders: Insights from Evolutionary GameTheory 215
Martin Brüne and Julia Wischniewski
3.5 From Neuroeconomics to Genetics: The Intertemporal ChoicesCase as an Example 233
Itzhak Aharon and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Index 245