News tagged with sociability

The kindness of strangers: Caring, trust linked to genetic variation

Scientists have discovered that a gene that influences empathy, parental sensitivity and sociability is so powerful that even strangers observing 20 seconds of silent video identified people with a particular genetic variation ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Secure attachment to moms helps irritable babies interact with others

Children with difficult temperaments are often the most affected by the quality of their relationships with their caregivers. New research suggests that highly irritable children who have secure attachments to their mothers ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Social deficits associated with autism, schizophrenia induced in mice with new technology

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Finding a stereotype that is true: Mexicans more sociable than Americans

Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1




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Meet the beetles: Social networks provide clues to natural selection

Think of them as a group of guys, hanging out together, but not spending much time with the ladies, nor getting much "action." Except these "guys" are forked fungus beetles.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Social robotics: Beyond the uncanny valley

(PhysOrg.com) -- From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Oxytocin helps people feel more extraverted

First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy or introverted individuals wish for a magic potion that could make them feel ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Farming crucial for threatened species in developing world

A number of threatened species in the developing world are entirely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Babies embrace punishment earlier than previously thought

Babies as young as eight months old want people who commit or condone antisocial acts to be punished, according to a new study led by a University of British Columbia researcher.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study reveals clues to how humans became sociable

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have evolved to become the most flexible of the primates and being able to live in lots of different social settings sets us apart from non-human primates, suggests research by University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Baboons follow the leader to breakfast

If you're trying to drum up a crowd to go out for a drink after work, you're more likely to succeed if you're popular. Otherwise, you'll probably be going to the pub on your own.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Party drug's brain tricks explained for first time

(Medical Xpress) -- A researcher at the University of Sydney has discovered how the increasingly common street drug mephedrone affects the brain, helping to explain why it is potentially such an addictive substance.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Visions of a 'car-free future'

City centers could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by University of Leeds transport researchers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 37

Meka's robot head makes eyes at next-wave users (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- You've seen robots in the form of alpha dogs and insect swarms capable of military deployments but the next wave of robotics also includes a special breed of "sociable" robots for use in medicine, eldercare, and education. These are ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report


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