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March 24, 2025
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Mar. 19, 2025 — For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher is ...
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. 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. 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 ...
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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 and ...
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 ...
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 both ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...
Nov. 25, 2024 — Spending too much time social networking appears to be a key driver in loneliness, but a new article suggests motivated uses of social networking sites for connecting with people and feeling ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — For recognizing people's emotions, facial expressions do play an important role. However, they are not the only crucial ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — As flu season approaches, researchers are discovering that the flu and fake news have far more in common than we may ...
Oct. 7, 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 ...
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 ...
Sep. 26, 2024 — Using mathematical modeling, researchers found a way to maintain cooperation without relying on complex norms or ...
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- Language Used by Mothers Affects Oxytocin Levels of Infants
- Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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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
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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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