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Social support more important to mothers

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From the Örebro Universitet press release: For mothers who feel that they are not in control of certain aspects of life and who are struggling with their relationship to their teenage children, social support may make… 

Social laughter releases endorphins in the brain

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From the University of Turku press release: Finnish and British researchers have revealed how laughter releases endorphins in the human brain. The more opioid receptors the participants had in their brain, the more they laughed… 

Researchers closer to cracking neural code of love

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From the Emory Health Sciences press release: A team of neuroscientists from Emory University’s Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition has discovered a key connection between areas of the adult female prairie… 

Linguistic style is key to crowdfunding success

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From the University of Illinois at Chicago press release: In one of the first crowdfunding studies focusing on social enterprises, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that how a pitch is… 

Why do we follow unspoken group rules?

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From the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) press release: How you dress, talk, eat and even what you allow yourself to feel — these often unspoken rules of a group are social norms,…