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June 3, 2025
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May 28, 2025 — Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say ...
May 22, 2025 — A new study examines the emergence of overimitation in infants aged between 16 and 21 months to see if and how it is linked to social affiliation and other forms of imitation. The researchers found ...
May 14, 2025 — There is no significant difference in the effectiveness of how autistic and non-autistic people communicate, according to a new study, challenging the stereotype that autistic people struggle to connect with ...
May 6, 2025 — When picturing a 'typical' alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at home alone. But that focus overlooks the social origins of many serious alcohol ...
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May 6, 2025 — A study found that targeted coaching for caregivers of infants as young as 8 months significantly enhances babies' communication and cognitive ...
May 5, 2025 — Friendship comes with complex pros and cons -- possibly explaining why some individuals are less sociable, according to a new study of ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have identified the neural mechanisms in the brain that regulate both positive and negative impressions of a social encounter, as well as ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have the potential to be friends -- guided as much by smell as any other sense, research on friendship formation ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and accessible way to fill the gaps in the overstretched U.S. mental health care system, but ethics experts warn that we need to be thoughtful about how we use ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — Fear of emotions among couples with PTSD is associated with unproductive communication, according to a new ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas ...
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Mar. 25, 2025 — Researchers explored how the characteristics of communication networks in groups (i.e., density and centralization) affected the development of shared social identity and, as a result, group ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Do you have lots of close friends -- and work hard to keep it that way? If you've answered 'yes', you are probably ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — Many people dream of retiring to a warmer, less expensive country. But retirees who move abroad may be at greater risk of loneliness than those who stay in their home country, according to new ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A simple neural change alters mating preferences in male butterflies, aiding rapid behavioral evolution, researchers ...
Mar. 4, 2025 — Nearly 40% of adult Americans say they've experienced some type of sport-related mistreatment in their lives, a new study shows. Mistreatment ranged from psychological and emotional to physical ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers find that parents show patterns of brain connectivity that oppose age-related ...
Feb. 19, 2025 — Research has found that people who strive for dominance, whether in personal or professional life, are more confident in their decision-making but are no more accurate in their choices than those of ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Surveys of college students conducted in 2012 and in 2022 found many similarities in their expectations about romantic relationships; however, they are now taking diverse paths through those ...
Feb. 10, 2025 — A new study found that friends significantly agreed on who was ready for committed relationships -- and who ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: A new study of more than 200 couples finds that being honest when expressing a desire for change leads to greater personal and relationship well-being for ...
Jan. 30, 2025 — Being more social by visiting friends, attending parties and going to church may help keep your brain healthy, according to new ...
Jan. 6, 2025 — The risk of experiencing intimate partner violence may accumulate over time among people who experienced childhood maltreatment when they were younger, finds a new ...
Jan. 3, 2025 — Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. ...
Dec. 26, 2024 — New research finds that lifelong singles have lower life satisfaction scores compared to those in ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper, researchers show how language and social cognition are integrated in ...
Dec. 17, 2024 — Hiking by yourself deep in a forest and similar episodes of intense solitude are not as likely to restore energy and enhance social connectedness as less complete forms of solitude, such as reading ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand ...
Dec. 6, 2024 — Higher emotional intelligence is linked to more emoji use with friends, while avoidant attachment is associated with less emoji use with friends and dating or romantic partners, according to a new ...
Nov. 25, 2024 — Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new ...
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- Why It's Good to Be Nostalgic: Study Suggests You May Have More Close Friends
- Retiring Abroad Puts Older Adults at Risk for Loneliness
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- Language Used by Mothers Affects Oxytocin Levels of Infants
- Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness
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- Depression Rates in LGBTQIA+ Students Are Three Times Higher Than Their Peers, New Research Suggests
- Stress Is Contagious -- For Animals, Too
- How to Reduce Social Media Stress by Leaning in Instead of Logging Off
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- New Study Finds Partner's Happiness Linked to Lower Stress Hormone Levels in Older Couples
- Workplace Culture and Social Relationships Are Associated With Workplace Bullying
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- How Social Structure Influences the Way People Share Money
- A Method of 'look Twice, Forgive Once' Can Sustain Social Cooperation
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- Holiday Season Already? Anticipation Might Make Time Seem to Fly
- Loneliness Increases Risk of Age-Related Memory Loss
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- Social Media Use and Sleep Duration Connected to Brain Activity in Teens
- Study Links Sleep Apnea Treatment and Happier, Healthier Relationships
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- Don't Be a Stranger -- Study Finds Rekindling Old Friendships as Scary as Making New Ones
- Exploring Brain Synchronization Patterns During Social Interactions
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- Talking Politics With Strangers Isn't as Awful as You'd Expect, Research Suggests
- Exploring the Effect of the Presence of Familiar People in Interpersonal Space
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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- While Social Media Changes Over Decades, Conversation Dynamics Stay the Same, New Study Suggests
- Social Bonding Gets People on the Same Wavelength
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- Understanding the Neuroendocrine Basis for Social Anxiety-Like Behavior in Male Mice
- Love Scrambles the Brain and Scientists Can Now Tell Us Why
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- Health Impacts of Abuse More Extensive Than Previously Thought, Research Says
- Social Chatbots and Their Impact on Neurodiverse People
- Just Say No to That Invitation