#social-behavior — Public Fediverse posts
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DATE: August 7, 2026 at 08:38AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHIATIRY FEEDTITLE: New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260805082508.htm
Blocking the glycine transporter SLC6A20 restored important brain signaling and improved social, communication, and repetitive behaviors in autism-related mouse models. The treatment also worked in human brain organoids and showed lasting effects in adult mice, suggesting the brain may remain more treatable later in life than previously thought.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260805082508.htm
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #AutismTherapy #GlycineTransporterSLC6A20 #BrainSignaling #AutismResearch #MouseModel #SocialBehavior #CommunicationSkills #RepetitiveBehaviors #AdultMice #NeurodevelopmentalTherapy
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DATE: August 7, 2026 at 08:38AM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHIATIRY FEEDTITLE: New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260805082508.htm
Blocking the glycine transporter SLC6A20 restored important brain signaling and improved social, communication, and repetitive behaviors in autism-related mouse models. The treatment also worked in human brain organoids and showed lasting effects in adult mice, suggesting the brain may remain more treatable later in life than previously thought.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260805082508.htm
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #AutismTherapy #GlycineTransporterSLC6A20 #BrainSignaling #AutismResearch #MouseModel #SocialBehavior #CommunicationSkills #RepetitiveBehaviors #AdultMice #NeurodevelopmentalTherapy
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Bad Judgment Looks Like Chemistry
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 3, 2026
There is a moment late in many nights out when someone turns to a friend and says the same sentence.
“Oh my God, we have chemistry.”
That sentence usually arrives after several drinks, loud music, and an hour or two of conversation that may or may not make sense in the morning.
It feels exciting. It feels spontaneous. It feels like something important is happening.
But very often, what people are calling chemistry is something much simpler.
Bad judgment.
Alcohol and the Illusion of Connection
Alcohol changes how the brain processes social signals. It reduces anxiety, lowers inhibition, and increases the brain’s reward response to attention and novelty.
That combination creates a powerful illusion.
People seem funnier than they are. Stories seem more interesting than they are. Flirting feels more intense than it really is.
In other words, alcohol makes ordinary interaction feel extraordinary.
Two strangers in a bar may genuinely believe they have discovered something special about each other. But the reality is that both people are experiencing the same chemical effect at the same time.
The chemistry they feel may have more to do with alcohol than compatibility.
Performance Mode
Bars are also places where people perform.
They are not neutral environments. Everyone there is presenting a carefully edited version of themselves.
People dress differently. They exaggerate stories. They laugh louder and act more confident. Small flaws disappear in dim lighting and loud music.
Alcohol amplifies that performance.
Someone who might normally appear quiet or awkward can suddenly seem charming. Someone who might normally appear arrogant may instead seem bold and exciting.
The person across the table may be real—but the version of them you are meeting is often heavily filtered by the environment.
Morning Light
One of the reasons drunken hookups often feel strange the next day is that the performance ends.
Morning light is less forgiving than bar lighting.
The loud music is gone. The alcohol is wearing off. The exaggerated personalities people adopted during the night fade away.
What remains are two people who may not have nearly as much in common as they thought.
Sometimes the difference is small. Sometimes it is enormous.
Many people have experienced the quiet morning realization that the person who seemed fascinating at midnight feels like a complete stranger at breakfast.
Compatibility vs. Excitement
Real compatibility takes time to reveal itself.
It grows out of conversation, shared values, and the slower process of learning how another person thinks and behaves over time.
Alcohol speeds everything up artificially.
Excitement replaces understanding. Attention replaces trust. Attraction replaces compatibility.
The result is a connection built on temporary conditions rather than lasting ones.
That doesn’t make the attraction imaginary.
It just means it may not survive daylight.
The Question Worth Asking
Before declaring that someone you met after several drinks is the most interesting person in the room, it may be worth asking one simple question.
Would this conversation still feel the same if neither of us had been drinking?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But very often, the answer is no.
And if the connection only works in a room full of alcohol, noise, and dim lighting, it may not be chemistry at all.
It may just be the environment doing its job.
Princess raised her head from the floor and gave one of the puppies a sharp little growl for chewing on something they clearly shouldn’t have been touching.
The puppy dropped it immediately.
Princess sighed, put her head back down, and went back to sleep.
Even the dog understands the difference between curiosity and a bad decision.
#alcoholCulture #decisionMaking #nightlife #publicHealth #relationships #sexualHealth #socialBehavior -
Bad Judgment Looks Like Chemistry
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 3, 2026
There is a moment late in many nights out when someone turns to a friend and says the same sentence.
“Oh my God, we have chemistry.”
That sentence usually arrives after several drinks, loud music, and an hour or two of conversation that may or may not make sense in the morning.
It feels exciting. It feels spontaneous. It feels like something important is happening.
But very often, what people are calling chemistry is something much simpler.
Bad judgment.
Alcohol and the Illusion of Connection
Alcohol changes how the brain processes social signals. It reduces anxiety, lowers inhibition, and increases the brain’s reward response to attention and novelty.
That combination creates a powerful illusion.
People seem funnier than they are. Stories seem more interesting than they are. Flirting feels more intense than it really is.
In other words, alcohol makes ordinary interaction feel extraordinary.
Two strangers in a bar may genuinely believe they have discovered something special about each other. But the reality is that both people are experiencing the same chemical effect at the same time.
The chemistry they feel may have more to do with alcohol than compatibility.
Performance Mode
Bars are also places where people perform.
They are not neutral environments. Everyone there is presenting a carefully edited version of themselves.
People dress differently. They exaggerate stories. They laugh louder and act more confident. Small flaws disappear in dim lighting and loud music.
Alcohol amplifies that performance.
Someone who might normally appear quiet or awkward can suddenly seem charming. Someone who might normally appear arrogant may instead seem bold and exciting.
The person across the table may be real—but the version of them you are meeting is often heavily filtered by the environment.
Morning Light
One of the reasons drunken hookups often feel strange the next day is that the performance ends.
Morning light is less forgiving than bar lighting.
The loud music is gone. The alcohol is wearing off. The exaggerated personalities people adopted during the night fade away.
What remains are two people who may not have nearly as much in common as they thought.
Sometimes the difference is small. Sometimes it is enormous.
Many people have experienced the quiet morning realization that the person who seemed fascinating at midnight feels like a complete stranger at breakfast.
Compatibility vs. Excitement
Real compatibility takes time to reveal itself.
It grows out of conversation, shared values, and the slower process of learning how another person thinks and behaves over time.
Alcohol speeds everything up artificially.
Excitement replaces understanding. Attention replaces trust. Attraction replaces compatibility.
The result is a connection built on temporary conditions rather than lasting ones.
That doesn’t make the attraction imaginary.
It just means it may not survive daylight.
The Question Worth Asking
Before declaring that someone you met after several drinks is the most interesting person in the room, it may be worth asking one simple question.
Would this conversation still feel the same if neither of us had been drinking?
Sometimes the answer is yes.
But very often, the answer is no.
And if the connection only works in a room full of alcohol, noise, and dim lighting, it may not be chemistry at all.
It may just be the environment doing its job.
Princess raised her head from the floor and gave one of the puppies a sharp little growl for chewing on something they clearly shouldn’t have been touching.
The puppy dropped it immediately.
Princess sighed, put her head back down, and went back to sleep.
Even the dog understands the difference between curiosity and a bad decision.
#alcoholCulture #decisionMaking #nightlife #publicHealth #relationships #sexualHealth #socialBehavior -
Decline in Daily Social Interaction Among Americans
📰 Original title: Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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The Condom That Wasn’t There
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 25, 2026
There is a moment in many bar stories that people forget to talk about.
It happens sometime after the music, after the flirting, after the drinks, and usually after judgment has been thoroughly soaked in alcohol.
Someone says something like, “Don’t worry about it.”
Or worse:
“It’s fine.”
In sober daylight, that moment would raise alarms. But late at night, when people are drinking heavily and the room feels like a small private universe, those alarms often never go off.
The Condom Conversation That Never Happens
One of the quiet realities of drunken hookups is that the most important conversation rarely happens.
Protection.
Alcohol does something predictable to human decision-making. It weakens impulse control and shortens the distance between thought and action. Things that would normally require planning—like making sure protection is available—suddenly feel inconvenient, unnecessary, or awkward to bring up.
People assume things instead.
Someone assumes the other person is careful.
Someone assumes the other person was recently tested.
Someone assumes nothing bad will happen this one time.
Assumptions are not protection.
Alcohol and Risky Decisions
Medical research has shown for years that alcohol consumption is strongly associated with risky sexual behavior. The more intoxicated someone becomes, the less likely they are to insist on protection or think through long-term consequences.
It’s not because people are reckless by nature.
It’s because alcohol temporarily shuts down the brain’s caution system.
The part of the brain responsible for judgment and long-term thinking slows down. Meanwhile, the part that responds to excitement and reward keeps going full speed.
That imbalance is exactly why drunk decisions often feel perfectly reasonable in the moment—and completely irrational the next morning.
The Reality of STDs
Sexually transmitted infections are not rare events. They are common, widespread, and often invisible in the moment.
Many infections show no immediate symptoms. Someone can carry an infection for weeks, months, or even years without realizing it. That means the person across the room at the bar may honestly believe they are healthy.
Belief is not a medical test.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HPV, and HIV all spread through encounters where protection is missing or used incorrectly. Alcohol increases the chance of those situations dramatically because it interferes with planning and communication.
One careless moment can create consequences that last far longer than a hangover.
The Myth of “It Won’t Happen to Me”
Another common feature of bar culture is the belief that bad outcomes happen to other people.
Most individuals assume they are cautious enough, lucky enough, or experienced enough to avoid serious consequences. They see their own choices as exceptions.
But infections don’t work that way.
They spread quietly through networks of people making the same assumptions at the same time.
A single night can connect two lives in ways neither person expected.
The Sober Question
There is a simple question worth asking before the drinks start flowing.
Would you make the same decision if you were sober?
If the answer is no, that’s not a romantic mystery. That’s alcohol rewriting your judgment in real time.
People often treat drunken hookups as harmless adventures. Most of the time, they are remembered later as funny stories.
But the risks attached to those stories are not imaginary. They are part of basic public health reality.
Ignoring them does not make them disappear.
Princess lifted her head from the rug and gave one of the puppies a quiet warning growl for chewing something that clearly did not belong to them.
A moment later she settled back down again.
Even the dog understands that some mistakes are easier to prevent than to fix later.
#alcoholCulture #decisionMaking #nightlife #publicHealth #relationships #sexualHealth #socialBehavior -
The Condom That Wasn’t There
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 25, 2026
There is a moment in many bar stories that people forget to talk about.
It happens sometime after the music, after the flirting, after the drinks, and usually after judgment has been thoroughly soaked in alcohol.
Someone says something like, “Don’t worry about it.”
Or worse:
“It’s fine.”
In sober daylight, that moment would raise alarms. But late at night, when people are drinking heavily and the room feels like a small private universe, those alarms often never go off.
The Condom Conversation That Never Happens
One of the quiet realities of drunken hookups is that the most important conversation rarely happens.
Protection.
Alcohol does something predictable to human decision-making. It weakens impulse control and shortens the distance between thought and action. Things that would normally require planning—like making sure protection is available—suddenly feel inconvenient, unnecessary, or awkward to bring up.
People assume things instead.
Someone assumes the other person is careful.
Someone assumes the other person was recently tested.
Someone assumes nothing bad will happen this one time.
Assumptions are not protection.
Alcohol and Risky Decisions
Medical research has shown for years that alcohol consumption is strongly associated with risky sexual behavior. The more intoxicated someone becomes, the less likely they are to insist on protection or think through long-term consequences.
It’s not because people are reckless by nature.
It’s because alcohol temporarily shuts down the brain’s caution system.
The part of the brain responsible for judgment and long-term thinking slows down. Meanwhile, the part that responds to excitement and reward keeps going full speed.
That imbalance is exactly why drunk decisions often feel perfectly reasonable in the moment—and completely irrational the next morning.
The Reality of STDs
Sexually transmitted infections are not rare events. They are common, widespread, and often invisible in the moment.
Many infections show no immediate symptoms. Someone can carry an infection for weeks, months, or even years without realizing it. That means the person across the room at the bar may honestly believe they are healthy.
Belief is not a medical test.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HPV, and HIV all spread through encounters where protection is missing or used incorrectly. Alcohol increases the chance of those situations dramatically because it interferes with planning and communication.
One careless moment can create consequences that last far longer than a hangover.
The Myth of “It Won’t Happen to Me”
Another common feature of bar culture is the belief that bad outcomes happen to other people.
Most individuals assume they are cautious enough, lucky enough, or experienced enough to avoid serious consequences. They see their own choices as exceptions.
But infections don’t work that way.
They spread quietly through networks of people making the same assumptions at the same time.
A single night can connect two lives in ways neither person expected.
The Sober Question
There is a simple question worth asking before the drinks start flowing.
Would you make the same decision if you were sober?
If the answer is no, that’s not a romantic mystery. That’s alcohol rewriting your judgment in real time.
People often treat drunken hookups as harmless adventures. Most of the time, they are remembered later as funny stories.
But the risks attached to those stories are not imaginary. They are part of basic public health reality.
Ignoring them does not make them disappear.
Princess lifted her head from the rug and gave one of the puppies a quiet warning growl for chewing something that clearly did not belong to them.
A moment later she settled back down again.
Even the dog understands that some mistakes are easier to prevent than to fix later.
#alcoholCulture #decisionMaking #nightlife #publicHealth #relationships #sexualHealth #socialBehavior -
🦧 New study on #bonobo #SocialBehavior: Arias-Vélez et al. show that #bonobos actively intervene in #SocialInteractions to enforce group norms and reduce conflict. Rather than reacting only to direct threats, bystanders often stepped in during socially disruptive situations, suggesting a form of third-party social regulation resembling proto-norm enforcement.
📝 https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1788 (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads4414)
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🦧 New study on #bonobo #SocialBehavior: Arias-Vélez et al. show that #bonobos actively intervene in #SocialInteractions to enforce group norms and reduce conflict. Rather than reacting only to direct threats, bystanders often stepped in during socially disruptive situations, suggesting a form of third-party social regulation resembling proto-norm enforcement.
📝 https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1788 (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads4414)
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What Are Social Norms and Cultural Practices?
Every community is governed by certain unspoken rules. These are the rules by which we live, and they determine how we behave, how we talk, how we celebrate, and sometimes, even how we think.
https://byshree.com/blogs/news/what-are-social-norms-and-cultural-practices
#communityvalues #societalrules #traditionsandcustoms #sharedvalues #societalbehavior #communitytraditions #everydaybehavior #socialnorms #culturalpractices #socialbehavior #moralstandards #communityrules #culturaldiversity -
Papageien einfach die besseren Affen, echt jetzt.
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Papageien einfach die besseren Affen, echt jetzt.
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https://get.mypost.to/bxp5Er
My husband and I decided not to post our son's face on social media.
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🪇 Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tend-sync-trampoline.html
#behavior #socialbehavior #synchronization #sports #exercise #trampoline
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🪇 Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tend-sync-trampoline.html
#behavior #socialbehavior #synchronization #sports #exercise #trampoline
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https://get.mypost.to/mzNwOQ
Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into ...
#socialmedia #socialactivity #socialbehavior #rte -
https://get.mypost.to/mzNwOQ
Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into ...
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Why do monkeys waste time on frivolous activities rather than cooperate to make tools and build industries?
#monkeys #primates #animals #animalbehavior #toolmaking #industry #zoology #timemanagement #animalintelligence #monkeyintelligence #animalpsychology #socialbehavior #wastingtime -
#SocialMedia Is it the end of society? Or is something else causing the downfall of social niceties. #SocialBehavior
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#SocialBehavior and #Personality: an international journal (SBP) publishes papers on all aspects of social, personality, and developmental #Psychology. Browse the collection on #ScienceOpen:
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From Medications to Mindfulness: New Frontiers in Emotional and Social Care
#Neuroscience #EmotionalHealth #SocialBehavior #Neuroplasticity #MentalHealth #BrainResearch #Psychotherapy #DepressionTreatment #AutismSupport #SocialConnection #Mindfulness #Neurostimulation #PsychedelicTherapy #EmotionalIntelligence #MentalWellness #InnovationInHealth #ConnectAndHeal
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The Power of Oxytocin: More Than the "Love Hormone" — A Deep Dive into Its Role in Brain and Body
#Oxytocin #LoveHormone #Neuroscience #BrainHealth #SocialBehavior #Neurobiology #StressRelief #EmotionalHealth #BrainChemistry #MolecularBiology #Hormones #MentalHealth #Biochemistry #Neuropeptides
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The Neural Symphony of Social Connection: How Our Brains Harmonize in Human Interaction
#SocialNeuroscience #BrainConnections #HumanInteraction #Empathy #NeuralNetworks #Hyperscanning #MirrorSystem #SocialCognition #EmotionalContagion #BrainScience #SocialBehavior #NeuroscienceExplained
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Computational Models in Psychiatry: Simulating the Mind’s Intricate Processes
#ComputationalPsychiatry #Neuroscience #SocialScience #Genetics #Epigenetics #MachineLearning #MentalHealth #BrainScience #StressResearch #NeuralNetworks #SocialBehavior #Immunology #FutureOfScience #MindAndBody
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🐒 Oh, brilliant! A groundbreaking revelation: #gorillas have complex social lives, just like... every other social animal ever. 🙄 Next up, a shocking exposé on how the sky is blue and water is wet. 🌧️🚿
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250505170816.htm #socialbehavior #animalresearch #groundbreakingdiscovery #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🐒 Oh, brilliant! A groundbreaking revelation: #gorillas have complex social lives, just like... every other social animal ever. 🙄 Next up, a shocking exposé on how the sky is blue and water is wet. 🌧️🚿
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250505170816.htm #socialbehavior #animalresearch #groundbreakingdiscovery #sciencehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
#careersuccess #characterdevelopment #decisionmaking #emotionalwellbeing #friendship #goalsetting #habits #humanconnections #influence #lifechoices #lifestylechoices #MentalHealth #mentorship #mindset #motivation #negativeinfluence #networking #peerpressure #personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #positiveinfluence #psychology #Relationships #selfawareness #selfimprovement #socialbehavior #socialcircle
https://miltonmarketing.com/health/impact-of-friendships-on-personal-growth-and-success/
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New-to-me, from University of Exeter: Monkey database reveals shift towards open science. “MacaqueNet contains social behavioural data from 14 of the world’s 24 species of macaque. Established in 2017, MacaqueNet has grown into a platform for truly global collaboration, with over 100 members based at 58 institutes across five continents. It is now the largest publicly searchable and […]
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PsyPost: Ignoring others for your phone? Research links phubbing to lower empathy. “A study conducted in Israel suggests that when people are ready to engage in phubbing, they experience a slight reduction in empathy. When empathy declines, individuals become somewhat less willing to act prosocially. The paper was published in Psychological Reports.”
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Golden Retriever Energy Helps Wild Dragons Navigate the Social Landscape: Class et al. found evidence for sex-specific associations between behavior, its predictability and fitness in wild Eastern water dragons.
Summary & Analysis by Pooja Radhakrishnan: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-2024-Class.html#dragon #fitness #behavior #socialBehavior #sex #waterDragons
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Golden Retriever Energy Helps Wild Dragons Navigate the Social Landscape: Class et al. found evidence for sex-specific associations between behavior, its predictability and fitness in wild Eastern water dragons.
Summary & Analysis by Pooja Radhakrishnan: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-2024-Class.html#dragon #fitness #behavior #socialBehavior #sex #waterDragons
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Nanoplastics found to disrupt dopamine system and social adaptation https://www.psypost.org/nanoplastics-found-to-disrupt-dopamine-system-and-social-adaptation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Nanoplastics #DopamineSystem #SocialBehavior #Neuroscience #EnvironmentalImpact
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Nanoplastics found to disrupt dopamine system and social adaptation https://www.psypost.org/nanoplastics-found-to-disrupt-dopamine-system-and-social-adaptation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Nanoplastics #DopamineSystem #SocialBehavior #Neuroscience #EnvironmentalImpact
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Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist on how AI might change humanity’s future https://www.psypost.org/smaller-brains-fewer-friends-an-evolutionary-biologist-on-how-ai-might-change-humanitys-future/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanEvolution #AIImpact #SocialBehavior #CognitiveScience
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The bats prefer to say they discuss strongly. 😄
#bats #Chiroptera #animalcommunication #socialbehavior
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/researchers-translate-bat-talk-turns-out-they-argue-a-lot
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Does being more social imply that you have to behave more predictably? If you are a dragon, it depends on your sex! Class et al. found evidence for sex-specific associations between behaviour, its predictability and fitness in wild Eastern water dragons.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732178 -
Does being more social imply that you have to behave more predictably? If you are a dragon, it depends on your sex! Class et al. found evidence for sex-specific associations between behaviour, its predictability and fitness in wild Eastern water dragons.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732178 -
I think I've noticed a CULTURAL change in our local crows here on the central Oregon coast. In years before, when I put out peanuts, the crows were often bullied and cut off by gulls. But last year, they started ganging up on the gulls and driving them away. See this in my town, and today saw it in a town 25 miles south. Fascinating if so.
#crows #gulls #animalBehavior #animalIntelligence #socialbehavior #birdfeeder
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I think I've noticed a CULTURAL change in our local crows here on the central Oregon coast. In years before, when I put out peanuts, the crows were often bullied and cut off by gulls. But last year, they started ganging up on the gulls and driving them away. See this in my town, and today saw it in a town 25 miles south. Fascinating if so.
#crows #gulls #animalBehavior #animalIntelligence #socialbehavior #birdfeeder
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Scientists Uncover a Gut-Brain Connection for Social Development.
Gut microbes encourage specialized cells to prune back extra connections in brain circuits that control social behavior, research in zebrafish shows. The pruning is essential for the development of normal social behavior.
To socialize, zebrafish need to trust their gut
🔗 https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-a-gut-brain-connection-for-social-development.
@neuro #neuroscience #socialbehavior #social #sociology @sociology #science #research #psychology #SocialDevelopment
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#introduction
👋 :mastodon:,
I'm a researcher at #INRAE-Nouzilly (France) studying #quantitativegenetics of #chicken #behaviour (especially #socialbehavior) to improve #animalwelfareI tackle these questions using my background from #EvolutionaryBiology. I've investigated how #sexualselection and #genetic constraints (#pleiotropy, between life stages & sexes) can drive the #evolution of phenotypes & behaviours in red #junglefowl and #drosophila (some cool stuffs to be published soon!)