Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: Beginnings
1: Who Are We?
2: The Brain's Passion
Part Two: Connection
3: Broken Hearts and Broken Legs
4: Fairness Tastes Like Chocolate
Part Three: Mindreading
5: Mental Magic Tricks
6: Mirror, Mirror
7: Peaks and Valleys
Part Four: Harmonizing
8: Trojan Horse Selves
9: Panoptic Self Control
Part Five: Smarter, Happier, More Productive
10: Living with a Social Brain
11: Working with a Social Brain
12: Educating the Social Brain
Epilogue

About the Author

Matthew D. Lieberman is Professor at the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews

This isn't just fascinating for its own sake. Lieberman has a social and political purpose.
*Julian Baggini, Financial Times*

This is a compelling and thought-provoking book.
*Grrl Scientist*

Lieberman animates our grey matter as a frenziedly active kernel looking for ways to synchronize our reflexes with others.
*Amelia Walsh, The Observer*

Matthew Liberman's book is good: it reads well, the structure is helpful and linear for the general-interest reader while also offering some depth for the detail-oriented bookworm or specialist.
*Tristan Bekinschtein, Times Higher Education*

SOCIAL is the book I've been waiting for: a brilliant and beautiful exploration of how and why we are wired together, by one of the field's most prescient pioneers.
*Daniel Gilbert, professor, Harvard University, bestselling author of Stumbling On Happiness *

This fascinating, beautifully written book brings the exciting research on our social nature and the brain to life
*Shelley Taylor, distinguished professor, UCLA, author of The Tending Instinct *