Social bonding between humans, animals, and robots: Dogs outperform AIBOs, their robotic replicas, as social companions. [PDF]
PLoS OneIn the evolving landscape of technology, robots have emerged as social companions, prompting an investigation into social bonding between humans and robots.
Klumpe S +11 more
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United on Sunday: The effects of secular rituals on social bonding and affect. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Religious rituals are associated with health benefits, potentially produced via social bonding. It is unknown whether secular rituals similarly increase social bonding.
Charles SJ +5 more
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Benefits of an online group dance program for adolescents' social bonding and wellbeing. [PDF]
J AdolescIntroduction The Covid‐19 pandemic and its ensuing effects on mental health made it clearer than ever that social bonds are critical for survival, flourishing, and mental wellbeing.
Tunçgenç B, Greig EJ, Cohen E.
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Social bonding in groups of humans selectively increases inter-status information exchange and prefrontal neural synchronization. [PDF]
PLoS BiolSocial groups in various social species are organized with hierarchical structures that shape group dynamics and the nature of within-group interactions.
Ni J, Yang J, Ma Y.
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Cultural Familiarity and Individual Musical Taste Differently Affect Social Bonding when Moving to Music. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Social bonds are essential for our health and well-being. Music provides a unique and implicit context for social bonding by introducing temporal and affective frameworks, which facilitate movement synchronization and increase affiliation.
Stupacher J +3 more
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Time investments in rituals are associated with social bonding, affect and subjective health: a longitudinal study of Diwali in two Indian communities. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 Rituals are performed within specific socio-ecological niches, yet the different effects of the same ritual form across different niches (community contexts) remains unclear.
Singh P +5 more
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Opioids and social bonding: Effect of naltrexone on feelings of social connection and ventral striatum activity to close others. [PDF]
J Exp Psychol Gen, 2020 Close social bonds are critical to immediate and long-term well-being. However, the neurochemical mechanisms by which we remain connected to our closest loved one’s are not well understood. Opioids have long been theorized to contribute to social bonding
Inagaki TK, Hazlett LI, Andreescu C.
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Emotional arousal when watching drama increases pain threshold and social bonding [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Fiction, whether in the form of storytelling or plays, has a particular attraction for us: we repeatedly return to it and are willing to invest money and time in doing so. Why this is so is an evolutionary enigma that has been surprisingly underexplored.
R. I. M. Dunbar +6 more
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Social bonding drives vocal exchanges in Bonobos. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 The origin of human speech is still a hotly debated topic in science. Evidence of socially-guided acoustic flexibility and proto-conversational rules has been found in several monkey species, but is lacking in social and cooperative great apes.
Levréro F +5 more
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Naltrexone alters responses to social and physical warmth: implications for social bonding. [PDF]
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2019 Socially warm experiences, when one feels connected to others, have been linked with physical warmth. Opioids, hypothesized to support social bonding with close others and, separately, physical warmth, may underlie both experiences. In order to test this
Inagaki TK, Hazlett LI, Andreescu C.
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