From the PLOS press release: Like chimpanzees, humans may console their threatened peers out of empathy, according to a study published May 31, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard from…
From the Arizona State University press release: They have what most would want — affluent upwardly mobile parents, living in comfortable homes in the suburbs, going to an elite high school and being groomed for…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
From the Frontiers press release: Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are only a few examples of situations that may cause despair,…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: When a close friend shares bad news, our instinct is to help. But putting ourselves in a friend’s shoes, imagining how we would feel if we were the…
From the University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine press release: A recent study has demonstrated that intranasal oxytocin can influence how individuals with autism perceive emotion in others. This is an important first step for a…
From the University College London press release: When trying to make a decision with another person, people tend to match their confidence levels, which can backfire if one person has more expertise than the other,…