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DATE: August 22, 2026 at 09:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People who favor dark humor tend to exhibit more problematic personality traits
The way a person jokes may offer a subtle glimpse into their underlying psychological makeup and how they handle interpersonal relationships. A recent study published in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts suggests that people who favor darker forms of humor, such as sarcasm and cynicism, tend to show higher levels of maladaptive personality traits. In contrast, those who use lighter, more playful humor tend to display fewer traits associated with personality disorders.
Humor is a universal human behavior that does more than just make people laugh. It serves as a tool for emotional regulation, social bonding, and communicating complex ideas. “Humor is one of the most fascinating forms of human communication, and I have been studying its psychological functions for about 15 years,” said lead author Alberto Dionigi, a psychologist and cognitive behavioral psychotherapist at the Noesis Clinical Center in Italy.
“I am a psychologist and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist, and my main research interest is understanding how humor can influence the way we cope with emotions, relate to other people, and express our personality,” Dionigi explained. Psychologists often break humor down into different comic styles. Lighter styles include fun, benevolent humor, nonsense, and wit, which generally promote positive feelings and social connection.
Darker comic styles include irony, satire, sarcasm, and cynicism. These styles often rely on criticism, mockery, or a sense of superiority, which can strain relationships if used excessively. “We often think of humor as something inherently positive, but this is not always the case,” Dionigi said. “Humor can promote wellbeing, reduce stress, and facilitate social relationships, but it can also be used to criticize, distance ourselves from others, express hostility, or protect ourselves from vulnerability.”
Past research linking humor to personality mostly focused on standard traits, like extraversion or agreeableness. The authors of this new research wanted to explore how these eight specific comic styles align with a wider range of personality disorder traits.
“For this reason, we decided to investigate whether different ways of using humor are associated with specific maladaptive personality traits,” Dionigi added. “Rather than simply asking whether someone has a “good sense of humor,” we examined eight different comic styles, ranging from lighter forms such as fun, benevolent humor, nonsense, and wit to darker forms such as irony, satire, sarcasm, and cynicism.”
The scientists focused on a normative adult sample. This means they studied everyday people rather than patients formally diagnosed with a psychiatric condition. Mental health professionals recognize that personality disorder traits exist on a continuous spectrum. Many people possess subclinical levels of these traits, meaning they have certain cognitive or behavioral tendencies that do not meet the threshold for a full medical diagnosis.
The researchers surveyed 599 Italian adults with an average age of 40. Participants completed the survey online, answering questions from the Comic Style Markers questionnaire. This tool measures how frequently a person uses the eight different humor styles. The survey asked participants to rate statements on a scale from one to seven based on how well the descriptions matched their behavior.
For example, a statement measuring fun was “I am a funny joker,” while a statement measuring sarcasm was “Biting mockery suits me.” Next, the participants completed the Personality Belief Questionnaire-Short Form. This tool measures dysfunctional thinking patterns associated with ten different personality disorder traits. These traits include avoidant, dependent, passive-aggressive, obsessive-compulsive, antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic, schizoid, paranoid, and borderline tendencies.
An avoidant trait was measured with statements like “I should avoid unpleasant situations at all costs.” An antisocial trait was measured with statements such as “Force or cunning is the best way to get things done.” The researchers analyzed the collected data to see which personality traits predicted which humor styles. The authors controlled for the age and sex of the participants during their statistical analysis to isolate the effects of personality.
The findings indicate that darker comic styles are consistently linked to more problematic personality features. “I think the main message is that humor is not simply positive or negative: how we use humor matters,” Dionigi explained. “In our study of 599 Italian adults, we found that darker comic styles, particularly sarcasm and cynicism, were more strongly associated with maladaptive personality traits.”
Sarcasm and cynicism showed the strongest positive associations with passive-aggressive, antisocial, narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline traits. The statistical models explained up to 23 percent of the variance in the use of cynical humor. This indicates a moderate statistical relationship, meaning that almost a quarter of the differences in how often people use cynical humor can be predicted by these specific personality traits.
These patterns suggest that individuals with antagonistic or impulsive tendencies might use sarcasm and cynicism as socially acceptable ways to express dominance. “For example, they were related to traits involving interpersonal antagonism, distrust, hostility, and emotional dysregulation,” Dionigi said. “This does not mean, of course, that a sarcastic person has a personality disorder. Our participants came from the general population, and we investigated personality traits on a continuum, not clinical diagnoses.”
Irony and satire also showed positive links to maladaptive traits, though the associations were slightly weaker. Satire, which involves mocking foolish behavior to correct it, was associated with both narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive traits. The researchers propose that narcissistic individuals might use satire to mask their feelings of superiority in a socially acceptable format.
Meanwhile, those with obsessive-compulsive traits might use satirical humor as a way to enforce moral rules and maintain a sense of order. Irony was positively linked to borderline, paranoid, and obsessive-compulsive patterns. The authors suspect irony provides a cognitive distance that helps people regulate intense emotions. “Similarly, irony may sometimes help people create emotional distance from difficult experiences,” Dionigi noted.
The researchers caution against labeling any humor style as strictly good or bad. “One aspect I would emphasize is that our results should not be interpreted as saying that some forms of humor are “healthy” and others are “pathological.” Humor is much more complex than that,” Dionigi explained. “Even darker styles can have adaptive functions depending on the context. Satire, for example, can be used to criticize problematic behaviors or social norms and encourage reflection and change.”
Lighter comic styles were mostly isolated from these darker personality traits. “On the other hand, lighter forms of humor were generally less strongly related to maladaptive personality traits and were more connected with social affiliation, playfulness, and cognitive flexibility,” Dionigi added. Fun and benevolent humor showed weak or negative associations with maladaptive tendencies.
Avoidant personality traits, which involve a deep fear of social rejection, were negatively associated with fun, benevolent humor, nonsense, and wit. People with high avoidant traits tend to withdraw from social situations, which likely reduces their opportunities to engage in playful banter and share jokes.
“A frequent reliance on cynical or sarcastic humor, for example, may sometimes offer clues about hostility, distrust, or the need to maintain emotional distance, while difficulty using more affiliative forms of humor may be associated with social withdrawal or vulnerability,” Dionigi said.
The histrionic personality trait, characterized by excessive attention-seeking and emotionality, heavily predicted the use of fun and humor. Individuals with these traits may use playful jokes to maintain the spotlight and engage with their audience. Wit, which involves clever verbal associations, was positively associated with narcissism, suggesting that self-enhancing individuals might use intellectual humor to impress others. Additionally, men in the sample reported higher scores on the darker, more maladaptive forms of humor than women did.
“So, perhaps the most interesting takeaway is that our sense of humor may tell us something about the way we relate to ourselves and to other people,” Dionigi said. “Humor can be a way of connecting, playing, and sharing positive emotions, but it can also become a socially acceptable way of expressing hostility, keeping emotional distance, or defending ourselves.”
A cross-sectional design was used for this research, meaning all data was collected at a single point in time. This setup indicates associations between variables but cannot determine cause and effect. “An important caveat is that this was a cross-sectional study, so we cannot establish causality,” Dionigi explained. “We can say that certain personality traits and comic styles are associated, but we cannot say that personality traits cause a particular type of humor, or vice versa.”
The study relied entirely on self-reported questionnaires. People often lack objective self-awareness, especially regarding their own negative traits, and they may answer in ways that make them look better than they actually are.
“Humor is a highly interpersonal behavior, so future studies could include ratings from partners, friends, or clinicians, as well as behavioral measures of how people actually use humor in real-life interactions,” Dionigi noted.
The sample consisted primarily of Italian adults, and nearly 73 percent of the participants were women. This demographic imbalance and specific cultural setting might limit how well the findings apply to other populations. “Our sample was also composed mainly of nonclinical Italian adults, so the findings should not automatically be generalized to people diagnosed with personality disorders or to other cultures,” Dionigi said.
Future studies could track people over time and across different cultures to better understand how humor and personality interact throughout a lifespan.
“One question I find particularly interesting for future research is whether it is not only which humor style people use, but also how effectively they use it that matters,” Dionigi explained. “Two people may both use sarcasm, for example, but with very different interpersonal effects. It would also be interesting to study these relationships in clinical populations and among professional humor performers.”
As a psychotherapist, Dionigi hopes this research encourages people to think more deeply about their own habits. “So, rather than asking “Is humor good or bad?”, perhaps we should ask: “What kind of humor am I using, with whom, and what function is it serving in this particular moment?””
The study, “Humor and Personality Disorders: Associations Between Comic Styles and Maladaptive Personality Traits in a Normative Adult Sample,” was authored by Alberto Dionigi, Mirko Duradoni, and Laura Vagnoli.
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DATE: August 19, 2026 at 10:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: New research shows the unexpected benefits of a fixed mindset for social anxiety
Believing that people rarely change their first impressions might actually help individuals who experience high levels of social anxiety. New research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin indicates that this fixed view of social judgments reduces the mental burden of socializing. By assuming that social evaluations are stable, anxious individuals can let their guard down, allowing them to perform better and enjoy interactions more.
People who experience high social anxiety often fear negative evaluation, mockery, and rejection. This intense fear causes them to focus inward during conversations. They constantly monitor their own behavior, looking for perceived flaws or awkwardness. This cycle of self-criticism requires immense mental energy and acts like a distracting background noise, leaving fewer resources to simply engage naturally in a social setting.
Psychological research often looks at mindsets to understand how people handle challenges. A mindset is a person’s underlying belief about whether human traits can change. A growth mindset assumes traits are malleable and can be improved, while a fixed mindset assumes they are stable and unchangeable. Past therapeutic efforts have sometimes tried teaching anxious individuals that their own personality or anxiety levels can change over time.
Bar-Ilan University researcher Liad Uziel approached the problem from a different angle. Instead of focusing on a person’s beliefs about their own internal traits, Uziel investigated their beliefs about how other people form impressions. In daily life, we try to shape how others perceive us, a process known as impression management.
Uziel hypothesized that if socially anxious individuals believe impressions are relatively fixed, social situations might feel more predictable. If people form an opinion and stick to it, the pressure to constantly manage one’s public image drops. This predictability could reduce the need to obsessively monitor one’s own behavior, freeing up mental energy to focus on the conversation itself.
To test this idea, Uziel conducted a preliminary online study with 182 participants from the United Kingdom. The participants completed questionnaires measuring their levels of social anxiety, their beliefs about how people form impressions, and the extent to which they feel drained by managing their public image. The goal was to see how these factors naturally align in the general public.
The results showed that higher social anxiety was heavily linked to feeling depleted by social interactions. Yet, for participants who naturally leaned toward a fixed mindset regarding impression formation, this draining effect was noticeably weaker. Believing that social judgments are stable seemed to buffer against the exhaustion of socializing.
Uziel then conducted a laboratory experiment with 200 undergraduate students in Israel to see if manipulating these mindsets could change actual behavior. The students were randomly assigned to read and agree with statements promoting either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset about impression formation. A fixed mindset prompt suggested that people form durable impressions, while a growth mindset prompt suggested that opinions are constantly updated.
Next, the participants were asked to write a thorough self-introduction, under the premise that they would soon meet another student for a joint task. Independent judges, who did not know which experimental group the students were in, rated these written introductions. They evaluated the text based on traits like friendliness and dominance, which indicate a confident and appealing social presence.
Among students primed with a growth mindset, higher social anxiety resulted in a less appealing self-presentation. They appeared more hesitant and less engaging. For those primed with a fixed mindset, higher social anxiety was not associated with a worse impression. The simple belief that impressions are stable allowed anxious participants to present a more desirable version of themselves.
A second experiment raised the stakes by introducing a more stressful social task. A new group of 155 undergraduate students underwent the same mindset manipulation. Afterward, they had to talk about themselves for two minutes while being recorded by a video camera. Presenting oneself on camera is a well-known method for inducing social stress in laboratory settings.
Objective observers watched the videos and rated the participants on their eye contact, vocal clarity, comfort, and conversational flow. The findings mirrored the previous experiment. Students with high social anxiety who adopted a growth mindset appeared more anxious and less comfortable on camera. Conversely, those who adopted a fixed mindset performed just as well as their less anxious peers.
A final study tracked 158 students over several days to measure real-world social experiences. Participants were again assigned to adopt either a fixed or a growth mindset. This time, they also wrote about a personal memory that aligned with that specific belief, an exercise designed to reinforce the manipulated mindset.
Three days later, the students reported on the quality, stress levels, and satisfaction of their recent social interactions. In the real world, the mindset shift made a noticeable difference. Participants with higher social anxiety reported having better and more satisfying social experiences over the three-day period if they had been primed with a fixed mindset. Those primed with a growth mindset reported worse social experiences.
A growth mindset about social judgments means believing that you are constantly being evaluated and reevaluated. For someone who is already socially anxious, this belief likely turns every conversation into a high-stakes performance. A fixed mindset takes away that pressure, allowing the person to relax after the initial introduction.
While these findings offer a new way to cope with social stress, the research was conducted using general student and online populations. The study did not specifically test individuals who have been clinically diagnosed with a social anxiety disorder. The observed behavioral changes in the laboratory were also relatively brief. Future research will need to determine if teaching a fixed mindset about impression formation can provide long-term relief in clinical therapeutic settings.
The study, “The Soothing Effect of a Stable World: Social Behavior of Individuals Varying on Social Anxiety Under Fixed and Growth Mindsets About Impression Formation,” was authored by Liad Uziel.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #SocialAnxiety #FixedMindset #ImpressionFormation #MindsetResearch #SocialBehavior #ImpressionManagement #PsychologyStudy #MentalEnergy #SocialInteractions #GrowthVsFixed
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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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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.
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Decline in Daily Social Interaction Among Americans
📰 Original title: Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing
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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.
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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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Papageien einfach die besseren Affen, echt jetzt.
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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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Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into ...
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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?
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#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 -
#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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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
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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