For many people, the lack of face-to-face social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic caused regular social skills to get rusty. Dr. Eric Storch, professor and vice chair in the Menninger ...

When Yale neuroscientist Joy Hirsch used sophisticated imaging tools to track in real time the brain activity of two people engaged in conversation, she discovered an intricate choreography of neural ...

Do you feel anxious when driving home from social gatherings? Maybe you keep replaying what happened, or you beat yourself up for the way you worded something. This could stem from not wanting to hurt ...

Although many emerging adults find social interactions enjoyable on days with increased time alone, those who seek solitude as an escape from stress or unpleasant social circumstances may not, ...

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex ...

This research was was funded by a European Research Council 'Becoming Social' grant, awarded to Dr Kami Koldewyn, lead researcher of the Developmental Social Vision Lab at Bangor University, Wales.

One of the most common human responses to music is to move to it. Our bodies respond to music in conscious and unconscious ways. The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Listeners react to ...

Social media can be used to facilitate contact with friends, former friends, or even former romantic partners, through messaging or via interactions and comments on social media posts. Sometimes, ...

Eventually, the research team concluded that zebrafish copy each other's motions and are dependent on another socially engaged fish to begin social orienting. The presence of another fish that is not ...

Visiting family and friends once a month, especially as they age, could help them live longer, new research on half a million ...