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The rewarding nature of social interactions
The objective of this short review is to highlight rewarding aspects of social interactions for humans and discuss their neural basis. Thereby we report recent research findings to illustrate how social stimuli in general are processed in the reward system … Continue reading
Social Interactions Receive Priority to Conscious Perception
Humans are social animals, constantly engaged with other people. The importance of social thought and action is hard to overstate. However, is social information so important that it actually determines which stimuli are promoted to conscious experience and which stimuli … Continue reading
The Connection Between Music and Sociability
New research uncovers links between enjoyment of music and social interaction. Taste in music varies considerably, but whatever people enjoy listening to, they often report an emotional response that has a touch of the physical to it. Maybe you feel … Continue reading
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Trust in the Workplace and Community: The Role of Social Interactions
Extending the literature on social capital development in the community, this article examines the impact of diverse social interactions on the development of social trust in the workplace and investigates whether their effects differ in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Using … Continue reading
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The Role of Social Interaction in the Evolution of Learning
It is generally thought that cognition evolved to help us navigate complex environments. Social interactions make up one part of a complex environment, and some have argued that social settings are crucial to the evolution of cognition. This article uses … Continue reading
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Extended cognition and the space of social interaction
The extended mind thesis (EM) asserts that some cognitive processes are (partially) composed of actions consisting of the manipulation and exploitation of environmental structures. Might some processes at the root of social cognition have a similarly extended structure? In this … Continue reading
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Affective resonance and social interaction
Interactive social cognition theory and approaches of developmental psychology widely agree that central aspects of emotional and social experience arise in the unfolding of processes of embodied social interaction. Bi-directional dynamical couplings of bodily displays such as facial expressions, gestures, … Continue reading
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Joint Action: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Supporting Human Interaction
Humans are experts in cooperating with each other when trying to accomplish tasks they cannot achieve alone. Recent studies of joint action have shown that when performing tasks together people strongly rely on the neurocognitive mechanisms that they also use … Continue reading
Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction
Newborns come into the world wired to socially interact. Is a propensity to socially oriented action already present before birth? Twin pregnancies provide a unique opportunity to investigate the social pre-wiring hypothesis. Although various types of inter-twins contact have been … Continue reading
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A binge-consuming culture: The effect of consumerism on social interactions in western societies
We live in a “binge-consuming” culture. Indeed, a certain compulsion to consume seems to characterize not only the way in which people relate to the object world of luxury goods but also the way we relate to other people, institutions … Continue reading
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