Recommended reading on social intelligence

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Key journals in the area of social neuroscience:

Recommended articles:

Baron-Cohen, Simon et al., 1999, "Social Intelligence in the normal and autistic brain: an fMRI study," European Journal of Neuroscience, 11, 1891-1898. $

Bowlby, Richard. "The Need for Secondary Attachment Figures in Childcare."
Related article from The Telegraph

Elfenbein, Hillary et al. "Reading Your Counterpart: The Benefit of Emotion Recognition Accuracy for Effectiveness in Negotiation." August 25, 2006. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior.

Goleman, Daniel, "Rethinking Social Intelligence," a technical appendix to Social Intelligence.

Goleman, Daniel. "Friends For Life: An Emerging Biology of Emotional Healing." October 10, 2006. The New York Times.

Hastings, Paul D. et al., 2000, "The development of concern for others in children with behavior problems," Developmental Psychology, 36, 531-546. $

Kihlstrom, John and Nancy Cantor, "Social Intelligence" in Robert Sternberg (ed.), Handbook of Intelligence, Second Edition.: Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 359-379.

Riggio, Ronald et al., 1991, "Social and academic intelligence: conceptually distinct but overlapping domains," Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 695-702. $

Tucker, Don M. et al., "Love hurts: A neuropsychogical model of how children and adolescents develop the capacity for empathic concern for others." Development and Psychopathology, 17, 2005, 699-713.

Wired to Connect: Dialogues on Social Intelligence

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Daniel Goleman and Larry Brilliant, Part 3. “Olympic-level athletes of the heart.” Goleman on “empathic concern” and what social neuroloscience has taught us about different individuals’ capacity for compassion; Brilliant expands on the distinction between “smart” and “wise” individuals and how business tools can serve the sick and poor. Listen now.

Daniel Goleman and Larry Brilliant, Part 2. “True compassion is more in how you look at the world and all of its beings, than just how you look at the one being in front of you.” Brilliant and Goleman on the well-known “Good Samaritan” parable and ways in which society as a whole can avoid such trappings. Listen now.

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