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November 25, 2024

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Stress Is Contagious -- For Animals, Too

Nov. 13, 2024 — What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...

Social Isolation, Loneliness and Frailty in Older Adults Have a Complex and Sometimes Mutually Reinforcing Relationship

Nov. 14, 2024 — A new article examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. hey found that physical frailty can ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — In common marmosets, the brain regions that process social interactions develop very slowly, extending until early adulthood, like in humans. During this time, all group members are involved in raising the infants, which contributes to the species' ...

New Study Finds Partner's Happiness Linked to Lower Stress Hormone Levels in Older Couples

Oct. 22, 2024 — Having happy intimate partners might not only lift our moods, but it also helps us manage stress, especially as we age, according to new research. When comparing individuals' self-reported emotional ...

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People Sympathize With Bullied AI Bots

Oct. 17, 2024 — In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from ...

How Do We Recognize Other People's Emotions?

Oct. 11, 2024 — For recognizing people's emotions, facial expressions do play an important role. However, they are not the only crucial ...

Are Ideas Contagious?

Oct. 9, 2024 — As flu season approaches, researchers are discovering that the flu and fake news have far more in common than we may ...

Childhood Social Interactions Can Combat Stereotypes

Sep. 30, 2024 — Prior research has found that exposure to social diversity in early life, such as through day care, influences how people communicate. Those early social experiences can also moderate tendencies ...

How Social Structure Influences the Way People Share Money

Sep. 26, 2024 — A study of informal finance finds that in East Africa, money moves in very different patterns depending on whether societies are structured around family units or age-based ...

A Method of 'Look Twice, Forgive Once' Can Sustain Social Cooperation

Sep. 26, 2024 — Using mathematical modeling, researchers found a way to maintain cooperation without relying on complex norms or ...

Networks of Beliefs Theory Integrates Internal and External Dynamics

Sep. 19, 2024 — The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network ...

For Many Animals Sleep Is a Social Activity, but It's Usually Studied as an Individual Process

Sep. 5, 2024 — Group sleeping can impact when animals sleep, how long they sleep for, and how deeply they sleep. For example, groups of meerkats time their sleep ...

Banning Friendships Can Backfire: Moms Who 'Meddle' Make Bad Behavior Worse

Sep. 4, 2024 — Bad behavior often occurs away from home, leading parents to blame and limit contact with peers. However, a new study shows that banning friendships can backfire, worsening behavior instead of ...

In-Person Contact Linked With Lower Levels of Loneliness in Older Adults

Aug. 28, 2024 — In-person contact helps lead to lower levels of loneliness in older people, but other ways of staying in touch, such as phoning, emailing or texting, are not as effective in lowering loneliness, a ...

Depression Rates in LGBTQIA+ Students Are Three Times Higher Than Their Peers, New Research Suggests

Nov. 13, 2024 — New findings uncover an alarming rise in depression rates among all higher education students in the United States, but especially among sexual and gender ...

How to Reduce Social Media Stress by Leaning in Instead of Logging Off

Nov. 13, 2024 — Young people's mental health may depend on how they use social media, rather than how much time they spend using it. Psychology researchers tried an experiment with three groups. They asked one ...

Workplace Culture and Social Relationships Are Associated With Workplace Bullying

Oct. 22, 2024 — Workplace bullying poses a serious threat to employees' health and well-being. A study sheds new light on the impact of social relationships on workplace bullying. Focusing on the dynamics of ...

How Synchronization Supports Social Interactions

Sep. 25, 2024 — Turn-taking dynamics of social interactions are important for speech and gesture synchronization, enabling conversations to proceed efficiently, according to a new ...

Early Exposure to Diverse Faces Helps Babies Overcome Prejudices Later in Life

Sep. 10, 2024 — Babies who have more diverse social contacts in the first years of their life can get over their prejudices more easily by the age of 17, according to new ...

How Do New Words Arise in Social Media?

Sep. 3, 2024 — The more centrally connected someone is within their social media network, the more likely that new words they use will become adopted into mainstream language, according to a new ...

Finding Love: Study Reveals Where Love Lives in the Brain

Aug. 26, 2024 — We use the word 'love' in a bewildering range of contexts -- from sexual adoration to parental love or the love of nature. Now, more comprehensive imaging of the brain may shed light on why ...

In Subdivided Communities Cooperative Norms Evolve More Easily

Aug. 14, 2024 — Researchers simulated social norms with a supercomputer. Their findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the evolution of social norms and their role in fostering cooperative ...

Does Physical Isolation Increase Loneliness?

Aug. 9, 2024 — A new study using data from COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia suggests that physical isolation does not lead to an increase in feelings of ...

Your Best Friend from High School? Here's Why Their Genes Mattered

Aug. 7, 2024 — The genetic makeup of adolescent peers may have long-term consequences for individual risk of drug and alcohol use disorders, depression and anxiety, a groundbreaking study has ...

Friendships in America May Be in Less Peril Than Previously Thought

July 30, 2024 — American adults may typically have more friends than indicated by other recent surveys, with fewer Americans having no friends at all -- though many would like closer friendships, according to a new ...

Words Like 'This' and 'That' Act as Attention Tools Across Languages

July 29, 2024 — Words like 'this' and 'that' or 'here' and 'there' occur in all languages. Researchers show that such 'demonstrative' words are used to direct ...

Holiday Season Already? Anticipation Might Make Time Seem to Fly

July 10, 2024 — Christmas or Ramadan might seem to come around more quickly each year, for people who pay more attention to time, are more forgetful of plans, and love a good holiday, according to a new study. ...

Loneliness Increases Risk of Age-Related Memory Loss

July 10, 2024 — About a third of Canadians feel lonely, and a study shows it has a greater negative impact on memory than even social isolation, though both present a significant risk to the aging ...

Watching Others' Biased Behavior Unconsciously Creates Prejudice

July 2, 2024 — We unconsciously form prejudice toward groups when we see biased people interact with members of a group. That is according to new research by psychologists, who show for the first time that ...

New Research Finds Biases Encoded in Language Across Cultures and History

June 30, 2024 — Researchers share evidence that people's attitudes are deeply woven into language and culture across the globe and ...

We Date, Marry People Who Are Attractive as We Are, New Analysis Finds

June 27, 2024 — Men and women were good at judging their own attractiveness, and tended to partner up with people who were similarly ...

Conversation Is Changing: Why People Speak More Alike Today

June 25, 2024 — Over a 20-year period people from these sectors changed their behavior -- resonating with one another significantly more than they used to and gearing towards a more engaging style. We talk like ...

Facial Recognition Linked to Close Social Bonds, Not Social Butterflies

June 24, 2024 — Do you have trouble recognizing faces, or do you never forget a face? The better you are at facial recognition, the more supportive relationships you are likely to have, regardless of your ...

Family Psychiatric History: Effects on Siblings of Children With Autism

June 19, 2024 — Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric ...