Effects of Social Housing on Dairy Calf Social Bonding [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Social housing for dairy calves has a range of benefits for social development, yet there is limited understanding of how social bonds form early in life.
Emily E. Lindner +4 more
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Brain functional networks associated with social bonding in monogamous voles [PDF]
eLife, 2021 Previous studies have related pair-bonding in Microtus ochrogaster, the prairie vole, with plastic changes in several brain regions. However, the interactions between these socially relevant regions have yet to be described.
M Fernanda López-Gutiérrez +8 more
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Social bonding through shared experiences: the role of emotional intensity [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceSharing emotions with other individuals is a widespread phenomenon. Previous research proposed that experiencing intense and similar emotions with other individuals reinforces social bonds.
Victor Chung +3 more
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Blocking mu-opioid receptors inhibits social bonding in rituals. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2020 Religious rituals are universal human practices that play a seminal role in community bonding. In two experiments, we tested the role of mu-opioids as the active factor fostering social bonding.
Charles SJ +6 more
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A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding. [PDF]
Perspect Psychol Sci, 2023 Many mechanisms of social bonding are common to all primates, but humans seemingly have developed some that are unique to the species. These involve various kinds of interactive experiences—from taking a walk together to having a conversation—whose ...
Wolf W, Tomasello M.
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Laughter and its role in the evolution of human social bonding. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 In anthropoid primates, social grooming is the principal mechanism (mediated by the central nervous system endorphin system) that underpins social bonding. However, the time available for social grooming is limited, and this imposes an upper limit on the
Dunbar RIM.
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Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music. [PDF]
Psychol Music, 2022 Empathy—understanding and sharing the feelings and experiences of others—is one of our most important social capacities. Music is a social stimulus in that it involves communication of mental states, imitation of behavior, and synchronization of ...
Stupacher J, Mikkelsen J, Vuust P.
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Laughter influences social bonding but not prosocial generosity to friends and strangers. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Humans deploy a number of specific behaviours for forming social bonds, one of which is laughter. However, two questions have not yet been investigated with respect to laughter: (1) Does laughter increase the sense of bonding to those with whom we laugh?
Dunbar RIM +3 more
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Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior. [PDF]
Genes Brain Behav, 2022 Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli.
Prior NH, Bentz EJ, Ophir AG.
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Evaluating mechanisms that could support credible reputations and cooperation: cross-checking and social bonding. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Gossip is believed to be an informal device that alleviates the problem of cooperation in humans. Communication about previous acts and passing on reputational information could be valuable for conditional action in cooperation problems and pose a ...
Samu F, Takács K.
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