Handbook of Neurosociology

Will Kalkhoff is Professor of Sociology at Kent State University, and executive director of the Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory of Kent, and a former executive committee member of the Brain Health Research Institute. He is also past chair of the Evolution, Biology, and Society Section of the American Sociological Association with research interests in neurosociology and social psychology. Rengin B. Firat is a Professor of Leadership and Change at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. She has previously worked as a senior researcher and neuroscientist at the Korn Ferry Institute and as a tenure-track professor at the University of California, Riverside and Georgia State University. Her work cuts across sociology and the neurosciences to investigate inter-group relations and ethno-racial disparities of health and well-being.  Joseph Dippong is Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests center on examining how social structure affects patterns of nonconscious behavioral synchrony between interaction partners, as well as how such differences communicate perceptions of power and status differences.