John T. Cacioppo

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Full Name	John T. Cacioppo
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1951(1951-06-12)
Age	73
Date Of Death	March 5, 2018, Chicago, IL
Birthplace	Marshall
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

John T. Cacioppo Biography

John T. Cacioppo is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on June 12, 1951 in Marshall, United States.

John Terrence Cacioppo (12 June 1951 – 5 March 2018) was the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He founded the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Director of the Arete Initiative of the Office of the Vice President for Research and National Laboratories at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the field of social neuroscience and was member of the Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, and the College until his death in March 2018.

In the late 1970s, Cacioppo collaborated with Richard E. Petty to develop the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) of attitudes and persuasion and began investigations of individual differences in cognitive motivation. They also examined the social and biological influences on mind and behavior. Petty and Cacioppo enjoyed a friendly intellectual rivalry and became best friends and eventually roommates so that, in Cacioppo’s words, they “didn’t have to take breaks” between scientific debates. The elaboration likelihood model emerged in part because Petty speculated that listening to strong arguments like Cacioppo’s were more likely to result in durable attitude change. A decade later, Cacioppo began working with Gary Berntson to pioneer a new field they called social neuroscience. This led to an expansion of Cacioppo’s research examining how personal relationships get under the skin to affect social cognition and emotions, personality processes, biology, and health. By employing brain scans, monitoring of autonomic and neuroendocrine processes, and assays of immune function, he found the overpowering influence of social context — a factor so strong that it can alter genetic expression in white blood cells. The work further showed how the subjective sense of social isolation (loneliness) uniquely disrupts our perceptions, behavior, and physiology, becoming a trap that not only reinforces isolation, but can also lead to early death. In 2004, he and William Patrick began a collaboration that led to their book, Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, which makes the case that social cooperation is, in fact, humanity’s defining characteristic. Gary Berntson, Jean Decety, Stephanie Cacioppo, Steve Cole, Dorret Boomsma, and Abraham Palmer continue to investigate the biological mechanisms involved in social perception, interpersonal processes, cognition, emotion, and behavior.

John T. Cacioppo Net Worth

John T. Cacioppo is one of the richest Researcher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John T. Cacioppo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In Memoriam: John T. Cacioppo (1951 – 2018), by Philip Rubin. American Psychologist, 2019, Vol. 74, No. 6, 745.

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Cacioppo had two children in his first marriage, with Barbara Andersen, a psychology professor, which ended in divorce. He met his second wife, Stephanie, a brain researcher at a scientific conference in Shanghai, and they married in 2011.

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Social neuroscience is an interdisciplinary attempt to trace how social forces “get under the skin” to affect physiology, as well as how physiology influences social interactions. His collaborative research on loneliness raised questions about one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology—the focus on the individual as the broadest appropriate unit of inquiry. The new discipline that examines the associations between social and neural levels of organizations and the biological mechanisms underlying these associations. Neuroscientists have tended to focus on single organisms, organs, cells, or intracellular processes. Social species create emergent organizations beyond the individual, however, and these emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural and hormonal mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped animals survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too reproduced. Social neuroscience, therefore, is concerned with how biological systems implement social processes and behavior, capitalizing on concepts and methods from the neuroscience to inform and refine theories of social psychological processes, and using social and behavioral concepts and data to inform and refine theories of neural organization and function

What did Dr Cacioppo study discover?

Cacioppo began his research by exploring what happens to the brain when social connections are absent. For two decades he studied social fitness, resilience and the effects of loneliness , showing the negative impacts social isolation has not only on mental health but physical health.

What do social neuroscientists study?

Social neuroscience is the interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of these neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms and, relatedly, to the study of the associations and influences between social and biological levels of organization.

Who is the father of social neuroscience?

John T. Cacioppo
Alma mater| Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
Known for| Co-founder of social neuroscience
Spouse(s)| Stephanie Cacioppo ​ ( m. 2011)​
Children| 2

Is loneliness contagious?

Studies have shown that (non-lonely) people who hang out with lonely people are more likely to become lonely themselves. So loneliness is contagious , just as happiness is – when you hang out with happy people, you are more likely to become happy.

What is an example of social neuroscience?

For example, when people are given oxytocin and placebos and we can test their differences in social behavior between other people. Using SCRs will also help isolate unconscious thoughts and conscious thoughts because it is the body’s natural parasympathetic response to the outside world.