Embodied Brains, Social Minds, Cultural Meaning: Applying Social Affective Neuroscience to Development and Education

• In Event: 60.014 - AERA Early Career Award (2014) Lecture: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Abstract

Social emotions shape how we act, who we become, and how we experience our own lives. But how? Mary Helen Immordino-Yang will present her research on the neurobiology and psychology of admiration, compassion and inspiration, including these emotions’ deep visceral roots in the feeling and regulation of the body and consciousness, and their propensity to heighten one’s own subjective sense of self-awareness and purpose. She will share findings from her ongoing longitudinal study of these emotions among low-SES adolescents from immigrant families in Los Angeles, and what the findings reveal about how culture, family relationships, media use, exposure to community violence and other factors shape the brain bases of emotional experience, with implications for academic performance and life outcomes.

Author

• Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California