Psicología

Human beings are eager to form social bonds, and they suffer grievously when these bonds are disrupted. Social connections contribute to our sense of meaning and feelings of vitality and to our anguish and despair. It is not surprising that the mechanisms underlying human connections have long interested researchers from diverse disciplines, including social psychology, developmental psychology, communication studies, sociology, and neuroscience. Yet, there is too little integration of insights and findings.

This fifth volume in the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology aims to rectify that situation by providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge theory and research on social connections. The volume contains 21 chapters organized into four main sections: Brain (focusing on the neural underpinnings of social connections and the hormonal processes that contribute to forming connections), Infancy and development (focusing especially on child-parent relationships), Adult Close Relationships (focusing especially and physiological bases of group processes). The integrative perspectives presented here are thought-provoking reading for anyone interested the social nature of the human mind.