文档介绍：of this whole. Recent evidence underscores the to sustain scientific progress (see, ., Wilson, 1998).
complementary nature of social, cognitive, and biological Needless to say, social and cultural forces and their impact
levels of analysis and how research integrating these levels on human cognition, emotion, and behavior were far too
can foster prehensive theories of the mechanisms important to await the full explication of cellular and mo-
plex behavior and the mind. This research lecular mechanisms, so social and biological perspectives
underscores the unity of psychology and the importance of each developed, for the most part, insulated from develop-
retaining multilevel integrative research that spans molar ments in the other (see Berntson & Cacioppo, 2000).
and molecular levels of analysis. The 20th century was a time of remarkable advances
within the neurosciences, cognitive sciences, and social
sciences (see, ., Gilbert, Fiske, & Lindzey, 1998; Kandel
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated & Squire, 2000; Wilson, 1998). As science enters the 21st
for more than a decade, with mon goal of under- century, scientists are in a position to move beyond simpli-
standing how the mind works. These collaborations have fying assumptions, as evidenced by the emergence of per-
helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of spectives such as social neuroscience (see, ., Cacioppo,
perception, imagery, attention, and memory (see, ., Kan- 1994; Cacioppo & Berntson, 1992; Cacioppo, Berntson, et
del, 2001; Kosslyn & Andersen, 1992; LeDoux, 1995; Pos- al., 2002; Klein & Kihlstrom, 1998; Ochsner & Lieberman,
ner & Raichle, 1997). Many aspects of the mind, however, 2001; Sternberg, 2000), to develop prehensive
require a prehensive approach to elucidate the theories of mind and behavior. The purpose of this address
mystery of mind–brain connections. Attraction, altruism, is to review the emergence, breadth, and logic of th