[Eeglablist] Invitation to publish in Frontiers Research Topics: Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic, clinical and non-human evidence

[Agustin Ibanez]

Dear EEGLAB users,

In collaboration with Frontiers in Neuroscience, we am currently organizing
a Research Topic, “Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic,
clinical and non-human evidence”, and as host editor I think that many of
you could make an excellent contribution.

Host Specialty: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Topic Editor(s): María Ruz, Agustin Ibanez, Sonja Kotz, Jorge Moll, Louise
Barrett
More information about this topic:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Interactions_between_emotions_/1045
About this research topic:

The emotions that we feel and also those that we perceive in others are
crucial to the social functioning of both humans and non-human animals.
Although the role of context has been extensively studied in basic sensory
processing, its relevance for social cognition and emotional processing is
little understood. In recent years, several lines of research at the
behavioral and neural levels have highlighted the bidirectional
interactions that take place between emotions and social context.

Experienced emotions, even when incidental, bias decision-making.
Remarkably, even basic emotions can be strongly influenced by situational
contexts – for example, hearing a loud shouting during in a competitive
sports game or while walking in an empty, dark street. In addition, both
humans and non-human animals can use emotional expressions strategically as
a means of influencing and managing the behavioural response of others in
relation to specific environmental situations. Accordingly, whereas sulking
has been traditionally considered an expression of anger, it may be used
strategically as an emotional “game of chicken” to secure a better deal in
a relationship. Linguistic and paralinguistic cues as well as social
situations also seem to modulate intrinsic emotion comprehension. Moreover,
social emotions (e.g., engaged in moral judgment, empathic concern and
social norms) seem to be context-dependent, which also questions a purely
abstract account of emotion understanding and expression.

The present research topic of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience aims to
highlight the need for a situated approach to emotion and social cognition.
We call for theoretical and empirical work at the behavioural or neural
levels that should contribute to our understanding of emotion within a
highly contextualized social realm, or vice-versa. We encourage relevant
contributions from diverse fields, including ethology, neurology, biology,
cognitive neuroscience, and as well as psychology and neuropsychiatry. We
hope that an integrated approach that entails the interaction between
emotion and social context will provide important new insights into the
growing field of social neuroscience.


-- 
Agustín Ibañez, PhD
Director
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology & Neuroscience
Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) & CONICET
Pacheco de Melo 1854/60 (C1126AAB)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone/Fax: +54 (11) 4812-0010
aibanez at neurologiacognitiva.org
http://lpeneningles.wordpress.com/
www.ineco.org.ar
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