In Our Biosocial Brains, Michele Lewis underscores culture, brain, behavior, and social problems to advocate for a more inclusive cultural neuroscience. Traditional neuroscientists to-date have not prioritized studying the impact of power, bias, and injustice on neural processing and the brain’s perception of marginalized humans. The author explains current events, historical events, and scientific studies, in Our Biosocial Brains. Readers will be drawn to the relevancy of brain science to examples of injustices and social bias. Lewis also argues that incorporating non-western African-Centered Psychology is vital to diversifying research questions and diversifying interpretations of existing brain science because African-Centered Psychology is not rooted in racist, classist, and exclusionary hegemonic methods. The author argues for attention to marginalized populations, regarding the impact of violence, disrespect, othering, slurs, environmental injustice, health, and general disregard on humans’ brains and behavior. Using hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and original research, the author presents scientific studies that are integrated with sociocultural explanations to foster wider understanding of how our sociocultural world shapes our brains, and how our brains’ responses influence how humans perceive and treat one another.
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Michele Lewis, inspired by African-Centered psychologists and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, argues for a more humanistic cultural neuroscience to further understandings of the influence of isolation, injustice, power, and bias on brains and behavior.
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AcknowledgmentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1Still WretchedChapter 2Subhuman to Superhuman: Cultural Neuroscience of Illusory Blackness Chapter 3Cultural Neuroscience and Poverty: Emotional Emancipation Circle for Black WomenChapter 4The Black Women in Poverty Study: Cultural Neuroscience of Social-InjusticeChapter 5That Female is Ratchet: Mixed-Slurs Chapter 6Negative Emotionality and Disgust Activations Towards LGBT HumansChapter 7Collectivists and Individualists BrainsChapter 8Minding Perceptions of Native PeoplesChapter 9Killing Loneliness, Saving HumanityChapter 10Environmental InjusticesChapter 11Forever FanonChapter 12Future DirectionsReferencesIndexAbout the Author
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ISBN
9781498583534
Publisert
2020-07-07
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Lexington Books
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522 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
218