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DATE: September 27, 2026 at 07:00AM
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TITLE: A simple tactic can increase likability for socially anxious people, new research suggests
People with social anxiety often worry that others will judge them harshly, leading them to hold back from sharing personal details. A recent study shows that opening up about personal experiences increases how much others like a person and want to interact with them, regardless of the speaker’s own anxiety levels. The research, published in The Journal of Psychology, also highlights that the personal traits of the individual judging the interaction play a major role in these positive evaluations.
Social anxiety involves an intense fear of negative evaluation in social or performance situations. Individuals dealing with this condition often worry that they will fail to meet social expectations or that their peers will reject them. To protect themselves, they frequently adopt safety behaviors. These are defensive strategies, such as avoiding eye contact, staying quiet, or physically withdrawing from a group.
While these behaviors feel protective, they often create an unintended cycle. Peers might misinterpret the withdrawal as a lack of interest, unfriendliness, or aloofness. When peers react coolly in return, the anxious individual interprets this as a confirmation of their worst fears. The avoidance continues, preventing the person from experiencing positive social interactions that could challenge their anxious beliefs.
One specific behavior that anxious individuals tend to restrict is self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is the act of revealing personal thoughts, feelings, past events, and future plans to another person. In typical human relationships, people gradually shift from superficial small talk to deeper, more intimate exchanges.
Sharing personal information is a standard way people build trust and show warmth. When someone avoids doing this, they may struggle to form close bonds. Researchers Gabriela Lavinia Niță and Violeta Ștefania Rotărescu of the University of Bucharest wanted to see how varying levels of self-disclosure might change how socially anxious people are perceived.
They also wanted to shift focus away from just the person speaking to look at the person listening. Human perception is highly subjective. The researchers suspected that the listener’s own personality traits might shape how they grade someone else’s likability.
To test these ideas, the researchers designed a study involving 136 online evaluators. These participants acted as the “raters.” The researchers also selected four university students to act as the “speakers.” Two of these students had diagnosed social anxiety, and two did not. Each pair included one male and one female.
The evaluators rated each speaker at four distinct stages. First, they looked at a basic photograph of the speaker. Next, they watched a short video of the speaker sharing general personal information, such as their name, age, and hobbies. In the third stage, they viewed a video of the speaker detailing a happy memory from school. Finally, they watched a video where the speaker disclosed a sad or negative school experience.
After every stage, the evaluators filled out questionnaires rating the speaker’s likability. They also rated their desire for future interactions, which measures whether they would want to sit next to the speaker on a bus or ask them for advice.
The researchers found that sharing personal stories improved the speakers’ standing. Evaluators liked the speakers more after hearing them share positive personal stories compared to their initial impressions from just a photograph. This boost in likability applied to both the socially anxious and non-anxious speakers.
Sharing a negative experience also improved the evaluators’ desire to interact with the speakers in the future. As the speakers revealed more vulnerable aspects of themselves, the evaluators generally perceived them as more approachable. The simple act of opening up helped repair any initial hesitations the raters might have had.
Following the video ratings, the researchers conducted a second analysis focusing entirely on the 136 evaluators. These participants completed extensive surveys to measure their own personality dimensions. The surveys assessed traits like extraversion, agreeableness, and their own levels of social anxiety.
The researchers also measured the evaluators’ need for affiliation. This concept refers to a fundamental human desire to feel accepted, included, and connected within a social group. People with a high need for affiliation place a heavy priority on maintaining positive social ties.
The researchers anticipated that highly extraverted or agreeable evaluators would give out higher likability scores. Surprisingly, an evaluator’s extraversion and agreeableness did not alter their ratings. These broad personality traits did not make them any more or less generous in their judgments of the speakers.
Instead, an evaluator’s own social anxiety changed how they viewed the speakers. Evaluators who scored higher in social anxiety gave higher likability ratings to all the speakers, regardless of the speaker’s anxiety status. Anxious raters appeared to be a more lenient audience.
The same pattern emerged for evaluators with a high need for affiliation. People who strongly desired social connection provided more generous likability ratings across the board. The researchers suggest that individuals who crave acceptance are highly sensitive to any cues of social inclusion, prompting them to view others through a more positive lens.
When people want to belong, they might evaluate others leniently to avoid conflict and encourage a connection. This finding shifts the perspective on social rejection. If a socially anxious person feels disliked, it might not just be about their own behavior. The rejection could stem from the listener’s own lack of affiliative need.
While the results offer a new perspective on social dynamics, the study has several limitations. The researchers point to the halo effect, a psychological bias where a person’s physical attractiveness can inflate their perceived likability. Attractiveness could have influenced the ratings independently of the self-disclosure tasks.
The study also relied on self-reported questionnaires for the evaluators’ anxiety and personality traits. Questionnaires depend heavily on a participant’s self-awareness and honesty, which can sometimes skew the data. The length of the survey, which took nearly an hour to complete, may have caused participant fatigue, potentially leading to rushed answers.
Additionally, watching pre-recorded videos in an online format is quite different from real life. The videos lacked the immediate feedback and dynamic body language found in face-to-face interactions. In a real conversation, a socially anxious person might react poorly to unexpected pauses or the listener’s facial expressions.
Future research could use live, in-person interactions to capture the true back-and-forth of social exchanges. Observing how socially anxious individuals handle self-disclosure in real time would provide a more realistic picture of how likability forms. For now, the findings suggest that sharing a little bit about oneself is a reliable way to build a bridge with others.
The study, “Is Likeability in the Eye of the Beholder? A Quasi-Experimental Study on Personality, Social Anxiety and the Need for Affiliation in Assessing the Likability of Socially Anxious Adults,” was authored by Gabriela Lavinia Niță and Violeta Ștefania Rotărescu.
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DATE: September 12, 2026 at 06:00PM
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TITLE: Autistic individuals might be somewhat better at reading emotions of other autistic people
A study comparing the abilities of autistic and non-autistic individuals to recognize other people’s emotions found no overall main differences between the two groups. However, autistic individuals were more accurate at reading the emotional valence of other autistic individuals. The paper was published in Molecular Autism.
Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s thoughts and feelings. It also includes the ability to respond emotionally in a way that reflects or fits what that person is experiencing. Researchers distinguish between cognitive empathy, which involves recognizing and understanding another person’s mental state, and affective empathy, which refers to emotionally responding to another person’s feelings.
Autism has traditionally been associated with difficulties in empathy, especially in understanding other people’s emotions, intentions, and social signals. More recent work, however, has challenged the idea that such difficulties can be explained solely by deficits within autistic individuals. One influential view is the double empathy problem hypothesis. This hypothesis proposes that misunderstandings between autistic and non-autistic people are reciprocal rather than one-sided.
According to this view, autistic people find it difficult to understand non-autistic people, while non-autistic people likewise struggle to understand autistic people because the two groups tend to differ in how they experience and communicate about the world. Research has increasingly found that autistic people tend to report easier communication, stronger connection, and greater comfort when interacting with other autistic people. Likewise, non-autistic people can have more difficulty accurately interpreting the emotions and mental states of autistic individuals than those of other non-autistic people.
Study author Yonat Rum and colleagues conducted a study in which they tested the double empathy problem hypothesis. More specifically, they explored whether autistic and non-autistic individuals differ in their ability to empathize with autistic and non-autistic social targets. These authors hypothesized that non-autistic participants would better empathize with non-autistic social targets, while autistic participants would better empathize with autistic social targets. Empathizing, in this context, meant understanding another person’s feelings accurately.
Study participants were 235 individuals recruited through the Cambridge Autism Research Database (CARD) and word of mouth. 141 of them were autistic. 125 were female. 74% were from English-speaking countries, most often from the UK. Autistic participants’ average age was 48 years, while it was 51 for non-autistic participants.
Study authors prepared an empathic accuracy task that consisted of videos of 5 autistic and 5 non-autistic adults telling autobiographical stories. These individuals reported how they felt while telling the story using a slider on a scale ranging from negative to positive (affective valence). They were continuously adjusting this slider while telling the story. The slider’s position was recorded every 0.5 seconds. After completing the story, these 10 storytellers rated the degree to which they felt 12 emotions (embarrassment, anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, pride, fear, excitement, contentment, stress, calmness, and alertness) on a scale from 0 to 8.
In the course of the study, each participant watched 2 of these videos (randomly selected), one with an autistic storyteller and one with a non-autistic storyteller. They were not told the diagnosis of the storytellers. Participants provided the same ratings as the storytellers, and study authors assessed participants’ empathic accuracy by calculating how much participants’ ratings of a storyteller’s emotional state agreed with the storyteller’s own ratings. Aside from this, participants rated their own feeling of empathy and interest toward the storyteller.
Results showed that participants were somewhat accurate in determining whether a storyteller’s feelings were positive or negative. However, there were no main differences between autistic and non-autistic individuals in the overall accuracy of estimating the specific emotions of the storytellers in the videos. However, when tracking moment-to-moment emotional valence using the continuous slider, autistic individuals were significantly more accurate at tracking the emotions of autistic storytellers compared to non-autistic participants. This small-to-medium advantage suggests an own-group advantage for autistic individuals.
The two groups of participants were equally accurate when assessing non-autistic storytellers. Interestingly, non-autistic individuals rated their own empathy and interest in the storyteller as higher. Additionally, when providing free-text comments, autistic participants frequently described difficulties in identifying emotions and reflected on their own performance, whereas non-autistic participants mostly provided feedback on the task design. This led the researchers to suggest that autistic individuals may underestimate their own empathic abilities.
“Findings suggest partial support for the double empathy problem theory and potential underestimation of autistic participants of their own empathic abilities. Individual variability patterns caution against treating neurotypes as homogeneous categories that alone determine double empathy processes,” study authors concluded.
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of autism. However, it should be noted that study participants rated pre-recorded videos, which is substantively different from assessing emotions during real-life social encounters. Authors also note that autistic participants in their study were volunteers i.e., self-selected, and may not adequately represent the full autism spectrum. The study sample likely did not include autistic individuals requiring greater support to engage in social interactions.
The paper, “Nuances of double empathy in autistic and non-autistic people: examination using the empathic accuracy paradigm,” was authored by Yonat Rum, Noa Feldman, Shir Genzer, Carrie Allison, Ofer Golan, Anat Perry, and Simon Baron-Cohen.
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DATE: September 12, 2026 at 08:00AM
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TITLE: How anxiety and face gender shape emotional processing in children
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-anxiety-and-face-gender-shape-emotional-processing-in-children/
As children grow, their brains develop distinct ways of processing facial expressions based on a mix of emotion and face gender. A recent study reveals that these neural responses grow more specialized with age, while elevated anxiety can alter how kids react to potentially threatening faces. The research was published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Cultural norms and early experiences teach children to associate certain emotions with specific genders. Anger is often linked with male faces and interpreted as a sign of dominance or potential threat. In contrast, happiness is frequently associated with female faces and perceived as a sign of emotional warmth. When a facial expression violates these expectations, such as an angry female face or a happy male face, the brain must work harder to interpret the social cue.
The research team wanted to see how the developing brain manages these unexpected social signals. They focused on tracking specific patterns of electrical activity, known as brain waves. Alpha and beta brain waves are associated with attention and the filtering of sensory information. Gamma waves, which oscillate much faster, are linked to higher cognitive tasks, like blending different pieces of social and emotional information together.
The scientists also aimed to explore how anxiety affects these developmental trajectories. Anxious individuals often exhibit a specific pattern of attention when faced with a threat. They may initially focus heavily on a threatening cue before quickly looking away to reduce their own psychological distress. The research team, led by neuroscientists Hua Bai, Yasra Arif, and Tony W. Wilson at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Nebraska, set out to map these cognitive processes in youth.
The researchers enrolled a group of healthy children and teenagers between the ages of six and 17. The final analysis included data from 149 participants. While positioned inside a brain scanning machine, the participants viewed photographs of adult faces displaying angry, happy, or neutral expressions. Half of the faces shown in the experiment were male, and the other half were female.
The participants were instructed to press a button indicating the gender of each face, regardless of the emotional expression. While the youths performed this task, the researchers recorded their neural activity using a technique called magnetoencephalography. This non-invasive imaging technology measures the tiny magnetic fields produced by the electrical firing of brain cells, allowing researchers to track brain waves with high precision in real time.
The team also collected behavioral data during the task, such as how accurately and quickly the participants responded. Afterward, the researchers used specialized software to filter out background noise from the brain recordings, such as the electrical signals generated by eye blinks and heartbeats. Finally, the children aged eight and older completed a standardized self-report questionnaire to assess their daily anxiety levels.
The behavioral results indicated that response times varied depending on both the age of the participant and the combination of gender and emotion. The youths responded fastest to angry male faces. In contrast, angry female faces prompted the slowest reactions across the board. The researchers noted that these reaction times did not reach a level of statistical significance for the happy faces, meaning the age-related changes were specific to angry and neutral expressions.
When analyzing the brain wave data, the researchers noticed distinct patterns emerging within a fraction of a second. In regions of the brain responsible for visual perception and movement control, alpha and beta wave responses grew stronger in older children. These brain waves were especially active when participants viewed faces that violated social expectations, such as angry female faces and happy male faces.
The researchers found a specific association between these brain waves and reaction times for angry male faces. Older children showed increased alpha and beta activity in a brain region involved in motor planning and inhibitory control. The scientists proposed that as children age, they increasingly recruit this inhibitory network to control their physical responses to threatening cues, slowing themselves down just enough to process the information safely.
A different pattern emerged slightly later in the brain’s processing timeline, characterized by gamma wave activity. Older children displayed increased gamma activity in areas of the brain known for handling complex social and emotional information, such as the temporoparietal junction. This activity was particularly elevated when processing angry female faces, suggesting that the brain requires more integrative processing to make sense of unexpected social signals.
The team also observed age-related increases in gamma waves when participants viewed neutral faces. However, these responses were mixed, with some brain regions reacting more to neutral male faces and others to neutral female faces. The researchers attributed this lack of a consistent pattern to the inherently ambiguous nature of a neutral expression, which requires social interpretation regardless of the person’s gender.
Individual anxiety levels also altered how the brain processed these faces. Children reporting higher levels of anxiety displayed weaker early alpha and beta responses in visual processing areas when viewing angry male faces. This pattern aligns with behavioral theories suggesting that anxious youths instinctively suppress attention toward highly threatening social cues to manage their own distress. Meanwhile, responses to angry female faces remained consistently elevated across all anxiety levels.
The study focuses exclusively on typically developing children, meaning the results may not generalize to youths with clinical conditions like social anxiety disorder or autism spectrum disorder. The faces used in the experiment were also entirely composed of adults. Future studies could incorporate images of children and teenagers to test if youth react differently to the faces of their own peers.
The participant pool was predominantly White, which introduces the possibility of an own-race familiarity bias in how the faces were perceived. Because the study only evaluated participants at a single point in time, researchers cannot track how these brain patterns evolve within the same individual over the years. Longitudinal tracking would clarify how early brain responses shape social and emotional development long-term.
The study, “Facial expression processing is modulated by face gender and anxiety levels in developing youth,” was authored by Hua Bai, Yasra Arif, Jake J. Son, Nathan M. Petro, Grace C. Ende, Danielle L. Rice, Jason A. John, Anna T. Coutant, Erica L. Steiner, Ryan J. Glesinger, Hannah J. Okelberry, Brittany K. Taylor, Giorgia Picci, and Tony W. Wilson.
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 04:00PM
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TITLE: Individuals with psychotic spectrum disorder are less successful in recognizing the emotions of others
A study conducted in Sweden found that individuals with psychotic spectrum disorder were less accurate in recognizing the emotions of others compared to healthy controls. Moreover, among participants with psychotic spectrum disorder, those with a history of interpersonal aggression tended to be less accurate than those without such a history. The paper was published in Schizophrenia.
Emotion recognition is a basic part of human social interaction, helping people understand what others are feeling from facial expressions, tone of voice, and body movements. When this ability is impaired, social situations become harder to interpret and misunderstandings become more likely.
Such difficulties are especially relevant in psychotic spectrum disorders. Psychotic spectrum disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking or behavior, and impaired reality testing. These include schizophrenia and related conditions. The emotion recognition impairments found in individuals suffering from these disorders are not limited to static facial expressions, but can also appear when people interpret changing facial expressions, body movements, or other dynamic social signals.
Difficulties in recognizing emotions in these individuals tend to be particularly pronounced for negative emotions, although positive emotions can also be misidentified. People with schizophrenia may, for example, confuse one negative emotion with another or sometimes interpret neutral or positive expressions as negative. These problems usually reflect broader disturbances in perception, memory, attention, language, and other cognitive processes that contribute to understanding social information.
Study author Gabriela Gavalova and her colleagues wanted to compare the emotion recognition abilities of healthy individuals and those suffering from psychotic spectrum disorders. They also wanted to compare individuals with psychotic spectrum disorders who have a history of interpersonal aggression with individuals without such a history. Additionally, they wanted to see whether their recognition abilities depend on the way emotions are presented. With this in mind, they conducted a study in which they used three modes of presenting emotions to be recognized: visual (videos presented without sound), auditory (sound only), and multimodal (videos presented with sound).
Study participants were 79 individuals suffering from psychotic spectrum disorders and a history of interpersonal aggression (recruited from Forensic Psychiatry Stockholm, Sweden), 72 participants with psychotic spectrum disorders but without a history of interpersonal aggression (recruited from psychiatric outpatient clinics in Stockholm), and 86 healthy individuals (recruited via the State Person Address Registry in Sweden). The study authors note that the healthy control group had a higher level of education than the two psychotic spectrum disorder groups.
All participants underwent a short semi-structured demographic interview and were asked about the presence of the studied psychiatric disorders in first- and second-degree relatives, prior interpersonal aggression, as well as prior alcohol and substance abuse. Healthy participants and those without a history of interpersonal aggression also completed assessments of alcohol and drug use disorder symptoms.
The study authors collected data about the type and number of aggressive acts for the group with a history of interpersonal aggression from crime reports, forensic psychiatric assessments, hospital case reports, and participants’ own self-reports. Participants completed an intelligence test to measure fluid intelligence, which is the ability to reason and solve novel problems, a psychomotor speed test to measure the physical speed of responses to cognitive processing, and an assessment of their semantic understanding, or knowledge of the meaning, of emotion words using a synonym test.
Finally, participants completed a series of emotion recognition tasks called the Emotion Recognition Assessment in Multiple modalities test. These tasks contained 72 unique emotional stimuli displaying 12 different emotions. The participants’ task was to select the emotion being presented in the stimulus.
Results showed that participants from all three groups were able to recognize emotions in the emotion recognition task better than chance, meaning their responses were not random guessing. All three groups tended to misclassify some emotions. For example, they all tended to misclassify pride as happiness or interest, happiness as relief or as fear and despair, irritation as anxiety, and anger as irritation. Some other misclassifications were common as well.
Participants with a history of interpersonal aggression tended to also uniquely misclassify happiness as anxiety. The psychotic spectrum disorder group without a history of interpersonal aggression tended to misclassify pride as irritation, while healthy participants tended to mistake interest for anxiety. Crucially, the researchers found an unexpected and clinically significant pattern: participants with a history of interpersonal aggression were much more likely to misclassify negative emotions as positive emotions compared to both the non-aggressive psychotic spectrum group and the healthy controls. The authors suggest this could lead these individuals to miss negative social cues and fail to withdraw from escalating situations.
Healthy participants were much more accurate in recognizing emotions compared to the two other groups. In particular, participants with psychotic spectrum disorder and a history of interpersonal aggression were much less accurate in recognizing emotions than participants with psychotic spectrum disorder but without a history of interpersonal aggression.
Other than this, participants were more successful in recognizing emotions when they were presented with both video and sound compared to situations when one of these was missing. Overall, among individuals with psychotic spectrum disorder, participants with higher fluid intelligence, those who knew more words for emotions, and those who had better education tended to be better at recognizing emotions. Within this group, women and those without a history of interpersonal aggression tended to be better at recognizing emotions. Interestingly, when controlling for other factors, those with a history of alcohol or substance use disorder in remission also tended to score higher. However, the researchers caution that this might be a statistical anomaly known as a suppression effect, rather than proof that past substance abuse improves emotion recognition.
“In summary, individuals with PSD [psychotic spectrum disorders] and a history of interpersonal aggression exhibit more pronounced deficits in emotion recognition than those with PSD alone. This underscores the potential value of incorporating emotion recognition assessment and training into clinical interventions to reduce aggression risk and improve social functioning in individuals with PSD,” the study authors concluded.
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the psychological specificities of individuals with psychotic spectrum disorders. However, it should be noted that all participants with these disorders were recruited from Stockholm, Sweden. Results in other cultural groups might differ.
The paper, “Emotion recognition misclassification patterns in individuals with psychotic spectrum disorders and history of interpersonal aggression,” was authored by Gabriela Gavalova, Petri Laukka, Lennart Högman, Malin V. Källman, Marianne Kristiansson, Märta Wallinius, Håkan Fischer, and Anette G. M. Johansson.
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Genuine attention has measurable neurological effects on the speaker. It is not a personality trait but a system with clear inputs (the speaker's full message) and outputs (reflections and open questions).
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Great apes show mental differences that do not follow human rules
Ape minds have long been treated as clues to humanity’s past. Compare a chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, or oran…
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Great apes show mental differences that do not follow human rules
Ape minds have long been treated as clues to humanity’s past. Compare a chimpanze…
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Great Apes Shatter Human Models of Social Intelligence
Summary: Great ape cognition is highly individualized, dynamic, and structurally distinct from human intelligence. Tracking 48 chimpanzees, bonobos,…
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Social capital accrues through proximity. Remove proximity without a deliberate replacement, and the capital drains. Trust, informal knowledge-sharing, and collaborative capacity are the invisible assets that short-term productivity metrics cannot see.
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Joan den ostiralean, Raymundo Báez Mendoza (Georg August Universität Göttingen, Alemania) izan genuen Achucarron, portaera sozialaren eta Theory of Mind delakoaren oinarri neuronalak aztertzen dituen mintegi batean. Eskerrik asko zure ikerketa gurekin partekatzeagatik! 👏
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Synthetic media is a public health problem. The institutional response has been purely technical - better detection, faster takedowns. What is missing is a cognitive equivalent of vaccination: pre-exposure to weakened manipulation techniques paired with explicit identification of the mechanism.
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How Your #Brain Decides What Matters
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Traditional #neuroscience mythologized the amygdala as a simple fear switch, but recent studies on a rare genetic disorder reveal its deeper role in social and economic decision-making. Rather than just detecting threats, the basolateral amygdala acts as "...a kind of social compass, helping to weigh the needs and intentions of others and decide who matters to us." When this neural circuitry is damaged, individuals fail to properly balance risk and reward, displaying "...a diminished ability to flexibly weigh uncertainty, self-interest, and the intentions of others." This computational deficit often manifests as extreme generosity to strangers, demonstrating "...a willingness to help others without the usual filtering of context." Complex social choices rely on this vital brain region to "...integrate self-interest with concern for others into a single signal that guides behavior."
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🧠 #CulturalEvolution – Why #Brains need to interact 🧑🧑🧒
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Mentalization and Empathy: The Brain's Social Superhighways Explained
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Emotional Intelligence and the Brain: Navigating Social Cues
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New paper from Dr Leda Berio and co-authors on ‘Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally’. We’re delighted that Dr Berio, who specialises in #SocialCognition and #CognitiveScience, will shortly be joining #UCD School of #Philosophy as an #AdAstraFellow! #PhilAnnouncement
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New paper from Dr Leda Berio and co-authors on ‘Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally’. We’re delighted that Dr Berio, who specialises in #SocialCognition and #CognitiveScience, will shortly be joining #UCD School of #Philosophy as an #AdAstraFellow! #PhilAnnouncement
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Unlocking the Brain’s Social Circuitry: Self, Memory, and Empathy
#Neuroscience #BrainScience #DefaultModeNetwork #SelfAwareness #Empathy #SocialCognition #MirrorNeurons #Memory #MentalHealth #BrainConnectivity #SelfReflection #SocialNeuroscience #MindAndBrain #Neuropsychology #UnderstandingOthers
Inside the Brain: The Neural Dance of Thinking, Feeling, and Connecting
#Neuroscience #SocialBrain #TheoryOfMind #Empathy #BrainScience #MindAndEmotion #NeuralNetworks #SelfAwareness #SocialCognition #BrainTips
'Adopting the Intentional Stance Affects Social Attention When Interacting With a Humanoid Robot' - an article in Technology, Mind, and Behavior (TMB), published by the American Psychological Association, on #ScienceOpen:
➡️🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=a70d160f-0985-4b78-a7a0-192651d19fb0
#HumanRobotInteraction #JointAttention #SocialCognition #IntentionalStance
Journey into the Mind: How Brain Networks Enable Thought, Emotion, and Social Life
#BrainScience #Neuroscience #PrefrontalCortex #DefaultModeNetwork #SelfReflection #Memory #SocialCognition #BrainHealth #Neuroplasticity #MentalWellness #Neurochemistry #StressAndBrain #CognitiveScience #BrainConnections #MindAndBrain
Resilience in Action: How Your Brain Overcomes Stress and Challenges
#Neuroscience #Resilience #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #EmotionalIntelligence #BrainPower #Mentalizing #AttachmentTheory #SelfAwareness #StressManagement #Neuropsychology #PersonalGrowth #SocialCognition #SelfReflection #Neurobiology
Enhancing Social Connection: Breakthrough Approaches in Mental Health
#NeuropsychiatricTreatment #SocialCognition #BrainStimulation #Neuroplasticity #MentalHealthInnovation #PsychedelicTherapy #Oxytocin #Mindfulness #SocialSkills #EmotionalResilience #MentalHealthRecovery #AutismSupport #SchizophreniaHelp #BrainResearch #EmpathyBuilding
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
⏰ Save the date! #IWMLecture by Asst. Prof. Brendan Rooney: Using media & entertainment to explore emotion and social cognition
➡️ Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 13 – 15 pm (large conference room 2, IWM/Schleichstr. 6,Tübingen).
✔️ Participation online: please send an 📧 e-mail to redaktion(at)iwm-tuebingen.de
Communication problems can be the sign of a mental health disorder
#Health #MentalHealth #Communication #SocialCognition #Cognition #Psychiatry #EmotionalIntelligence #Understanding #MentalHealthAwareness #Therapy #PsychiatricDisorders #Schizophrenia
https://the-14.com/communication-problems-can-be-the-sign-of-a-mental-health-disorder/
interesting upcoming #Workshop: "From self-knowledge to knowing others:New advances in characterizing socio-cognitive dysfunctions in the general and clinical populations" ~ 31 Aug.t - 1st Sept. 2023. In #Brussels and #online.
More info and registration: https://sites.uclouvain.be/self-knowing-others/
#socialcognition
I really learnt a lot from this recent review paper about collaboration in other animals
How animals collaborate: Underlying proximate mechanisms by Shona Duguid and Alicia Melis in WIREs Cognitive Science
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wcs.1529
#apes #collaboration #comparativepsychology #cooperation #socialcognition #sharedintentionality
A friend's words, "that's great", may mean "that's great" or "that's NOT great at all" (sarcasm). A key feature of social stimuli is uncertainty.
Berkay and Jenkins (in press) showed that DMPFC is sensitive to uncertainty even in nonsocial tasks! The dichotomy of social vs. nonsocial would be better re-conceptualized as a continuum of uncertainty, and thus social cognition may be situated within the domain-general framework.
https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221112077 #SocialCognition @cognition @socialpsych
#socialcognition #measurement #replication #psychology
Amazing, honest blog by Chad Drake and his work with the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (#IRAP), a variant of the Implicit Association Test (#IAT).
Conclusion:
"I wasted most of my research career on a measure that has been and continues to be misused and actually seems to be just about useless."
One of these things is not like the other:
New set of studies finds “that deviancy aversion—people’s domain-general discomfort toward the distortion of patterns (repeated forms or models)—contributes to the strength and prevalence of social norms in society.”
https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221131378
#Psychology
#SocialPsychology
#SocialScience
@socialpsych
#SocialNorms
#SocialCognition
#Deviance
🔔#hiring alert: i will be recruiting PhD students to my new lab at #UWMadison this cycle! (tentatively: the Social Interaction Lab). We are an inclusive and interdisciplinary #CogSci group at the rich intersection of #language, #socialcognition, #neuroscience, and #computation. Please boost and pass along to anyone who may be interested!
🗓️deadline: December 1
🔗 https://psych.wisc.edu/graduate-program/application-process/
👋 what we do: https://rxdhawkins.com/publications/
Hello!
We are Mahmoud Elsherif, currently a research associate at University of Birmingham(UK) in the School of Psychology with interests in several areas such as #neurodiversity, #openscholarship, #psycholinguistics, #socialcognition and #ageing.
Also, a fan about social justice, accessibility, inclusivity, diversity and equity (JAIDE) issues, in relation to open scholarship.
Cannot wait to meet new people with similar interests.
On a #cognitivescience #cognitivepsychology and #gamestudies note, here's my paper in Acta Psychologica!
A study on how joint action occurs through #avatars in #digitalspace. With a healthy dose of research background and a case study on Final Fantasy XIV.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103758
Special thanks to co-author (and mentor!!) Cordula Vesper, the Final Fantasy XIV community, and Interacting Minds Centre!
Hi y'all! I'm a developmental psychologist who studies the social-cognitive mechanisms by which children understand information media 📙 🖥️ 🌐 📹
I'm currently a postdoc with @CandiceMMills working on the CRADLE project aimed at improving the accessibility and reproducibility of developmental science in partnership with Children Helping Science and Lookit.
#introduction #developmentalpsychology #childdevelopment #socialcognition
Hi folks 👊, here is my first post through an #introduction!
I am Zhaoning, a PhD student in social psychology at the University of Macau (UM) 🇲🇴 🇨🇳 and a Twitter (@lizhn7) immigrant.
My research interests include #SocialCognition, #SocialNeuroscience, #Mentalising (#读心术) and #ArtificialSocialIntelligence (#ASI).
You can find me at github.com/Das-Boot. Very excited to be part of the #fediverse! 😀
Hello Mastodon! 🐘
I am
- a #psychology PhD student @University of Marburg (D)
- member of DFG-funded RTG "Breaking Expectations"
- interested in attentional and learning processes underlying #stereotype maintenance; context effects; impression formation and predictive learning; political identity; and general #socialcognition 🔬
- also excited about #OpenScience and #SciComm
- and when I'm not doing research, I like to read and write novels or take photos 📚 📷
This is the official #Mastodon account of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, an APA journal published in partnership with the CPA and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (CSBBCS).
Give us a follow to keep up with the latest empirical and review papers on the following topics and more (and send us your good papers!)
#cognition
#language
#memory
#neuro
#attention
#decisionmaking
#methods
#multilingualism
#computational
#socialcognition
I'm Niv Reggev, PI of the Society, Cognition, Motivation, and Brain (SCMB) lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
I work in the field of #SocialCognition, studying #Stereotypes, #PersonPerception, #Memory, and how they all intersect to create #Bias. Also interested in #OpenScience and #BigTeamScience, and using #Neuroscience methods.
Check out our lab's website!
🌐 https://scmbbgu.wixsite.com/scmblab/
I am also a father of two daughters, and my posts will reflect it 😂