News tagged with social cognition
Oxytocin: Love potion #1?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Relationships are difficult and most of us probably think at some point that communicating positively with our partner when discussing stressful issues, like home finances, is an impossible task. What if there was a safe ...
Heightened level of amygdala activity may cause social deficits in autism
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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Something strange is going on in the amygdala - an almond-shaped structure deep in the human brain - among people with autism.
Psychologists reveal the secret of successful wooing
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Sussex study shows that,without being consciously aware, we change our judgment of a person's attractiveness based on what they do, not their physical characteristics.
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Humanoid robot helps scientists to understand intelligence
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A humanoid robot newly acquired by Imperial College London will lead to a deeper understanding of human intelligence, says scientists today.
Parts of brain involved in social cognition may be in place by age 6
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 15, 2009 |
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the ability to think about the minds and mental states of others—is essential for human beings. In the last decade, a group of regions has been discovered in the human brain that are specifically used for social cognition. ...
Children with FASD have more severe behavioral problems than children with ADHD
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have a high risk of psychiatric problems, particularly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, or both. Often children with FASD are initially ...
Higher social skills are distinctly human, toddler and ape study reveals
Sep 06, 2007 |
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Apes bite and try to break a tube to retrieve the food inside while children follow the experimenter's example to get inside the tube to retrieve the prize, showing that even before preschool, toddlers are ...
3-year-olds get the point
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Dogs and small children who share similar social environments appear to understand human gestures in comparable ways, according to Gabriella Lakatos from Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary, and her team. Looking at how ...
Poverty can hurt brain development
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Poverty appears to have dramatic effects on the brain development and function of young children, U.S. researchers said.
Who's bad? Chimps figure it out by observation
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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Chimpanzees make judgments about the actions and dispositions of strangers by observing others’ behavior and interactions in different situations. Specifically, chimpanzees show an ability to recognize certain behavioral ...
Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...
Who am I? Adolescents' replies depend on others (w/ Video)
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Ask middle-school students if they are popular or make friends easily, they likely will depend on social comparisons with their peers for an answer. Such reliance on the perceived opinions of others, or reflected ...
2 genes influence social behavior, visual-spatial performance in people with Williams syndrome
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Unraveling the genetics of social behavior and cognitive abilities, researchers at the University of Utah and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have traced the role of two genes,GTF2I and GTF2IRD, in a rare genetic ...
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