Social Neuroscience

I.e., the study of the brain systems especially involved in social interaction.

David M. Amodio and Chris D. Frith, "Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7 (2006): 268--277
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Joel Winston and Uta Frith, "Social cognitive neuroscience: where are we heading?", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (2004): 216--222
John Cacioppo (ed.), Foundations of Social Neuroscience
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec, "Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics" [PDF; thanks to G. E. Wimmer for the pointer]
Peter T. Ellison andn Peter B. Gray (eds.), Endocrinology of Social Relationships [Blurb]
Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor, Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture
Leonardo Fogassi, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Benno Gesierich, Stefano Rozzi, Fabian Chersi, and Giacomo Rizzolatti, "Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding", Science 308 (2005): 662--667
Walter Glannon (ed.), Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics [Blurb]
Paul Glimcher, Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics
Alvin I. Goldman, Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
William A. Harris, A Physiological Investigation of Social Status (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Sociology, 1981)
Andrea S. Heberlein and Ralph Adolphs, "Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledge", PNAS 101 (2004): 7487--7491
Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, Mar{\'i}a Victoria Hern{\`a}ndez-Lloreda, Brian Hare and Michael Tomasello, "Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis", Science 317 (2007): 1360--1366
Thomas R. Insel and Russell D. Fernald, "How the Brain Processes Social Information: Searching for the Social Brain", Annual Review of Neuroscience 27 (2004): 697--722
Pierre Jacob and Marc Jeannerod, "The Motor Theory of Social Cognition: A Critique", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 (2005): 21--25
Rajesh K. Kana, Timothy A. Keller, Vladimir Cherkassky, Nancy J. Minshew and Marcel Adam Just, "Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory of Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution", Social Neuroscience forthcoming (2008) [preprint]
Christian Keysers and David I. Perrett, "Demystifying social cognition: a Hebbian perspective", Trends in Cognitive Science 8 (2004): 501--507
Dharshan Kumaran and Eleanor A. Maguire, "The Human Hippocampus: Cognitive Maps or Relational Memory?", The Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2005): 7254--7259 ["..the relational processing involved in navigating in a city was matched with similar navigational and relational processing demands in a nonspatial (social) domain. ... [P]articipants determined the optimal route either between friends' homes or between the friends themselves using social connections. Separate brain networks were engaged preferentially during the two tasks, with hippocampal activation driven only by spatial relational processing. ... [T]he human hippocampus appears to have a bias toward the processing of spatial relationships, in accordance with the cognitive map theory. Our results both advance our understanding of the nature of the hippocampal contribution to memory and provide insights into how social networks are instantiated at the neural level."]
Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Jason P. Mitchell, Mahzarin R. Banaji and C. Neil Macrae, "The Link between Social Cognition and Self-Referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex", The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17 (2005): 1306--1315 ["The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been implicated in seemingly disparate cognitive functions, such as understanding the minds of other people and processing information about the self. This functional overlap would be expected if humans use their own experiences to infer the mental states of others, a basic postulate of simulation theory. Neural activity was measured while participants attended to either the mental or physical aspects of a series of other people. To permit a test of simulation theory's prediction that inferences based on self-reflection should only be made for similar others, targets were subsequently rated for their degree of similarity to self. Parametric analyses revealed a region of the ventral mPFC—previously implicated in self referencing tasks—in which activity correlated with perceived self/other similarity, but only for mentalizing trials. These results suggest that self-reflection may be used to infer the mental states of others when they are sufficiently similar to self." The Vygotskian take would be that self-referential thought actually dervies from social cognition; I should keep this in mind when reading the paper.]
Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Frank Krueger & Jordan Grafman, "The Neural Basis of Human Moral Cognition", Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6 (2005): 799--809
Susanne Quadflieg, David J. Turk, Gordon D. Waiter, Jason P. Mitchell, Adrianna C. Jenkins, and C. Neil Macrae, "Exploring the Neural Correlates of Social Stereotyping", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21 (2009): 1560--1570
Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero, "The Mirror-Neuron System", Annual Review of Neuroscience 27 (2004): 169--192
Jay Schulkin, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function [blurb, which sounds thoroughly right-headed]
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology
1. The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness [blurb]
2. The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity [blurb]
3. The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development [blurb]
Social Neuroscience [New journal, launching early 2006]
Damon Tomlin, M. Amin Kayali, Brooks King-Casas, Cedric Anen, Colin F. Camerer, Steven R. Quartz and P. Read Montague, "Agent-Specific Responses in the Cingulate Cortex During Economic Exchanges", Science 312 (2006): 1047--1050
Roland Zahn, Jorge Moll, Frank Krueger, Edward D. Huey, Griselda Garrido, and Jordan Grafman, "Social concepts are represented in the superior anterior temporal cortex", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104 (2007): 6430--6435

Notebooks

Social Neuroscience