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Social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions according to those of their interaction partner(s). In other words, they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly.

Social interactions can be differentiated into:

In sociological hierarchy, social interaction is more advanced than behavior, action, social behavior, social action and social contact, and is in turn followed by more advanced concept of social relation. In other words, social interactions, which consist of social actions, form the basis for social relations.

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Study estimates one in 91 individuals have autism

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders marked by impaired social interactions, restricted interests, repetitive behaviors, and communication impairment, which persist throughout ...


Solitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character

Solitude contributes to a person's imagined intimacy with a TV character

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If your best friend is a guy from "The Office" or a young doctor on "Grey's Anatomy," you may be relying too much on TV shows to fill a social void in your life.


Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second

Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second.


Social memory in Drosophila

Social memory in Drosophila

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...


Looking for the origins of music in the brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Music serves as a natural and non-invasive intervention for patients with severe neurological disorders to promote long-term memory, social interaction and communication. However, there is currently no plausible explanation ...


Magnetic leaves reveal Bellingham's most polluted byways

Being a standout has its benefits, study shows

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status.


A blue whale swims in the deep waters off the southern Sri Lankan town of Mirissa

Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys: scientists

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.


The New Science of Learning

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the "Science of ...


Star-shaped cells in the brain aid with learning

Star-shaped cells in the brain aid with learning

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater ...


Believing is seeing

Believing is seeing, when it comes to emotions

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions.


Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 8

In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...


Personality type linked to risk of death among individuals with peripheral artery disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A preliminary study suggests that a negative, inhibited personality type (type D personality) appears to predict an increased risk of death over four years among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according ...


Autism study finds visual processing 'hinders ability' to read body language

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The way people with autism see and process the body language of others could be preventing them from gauging people's feelings, according to new research.


Research shows that animals need time to survive

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To understand how climate change may affect species survival, we need to understand how climate influences their time-keeping.


New science of learning offers preview of tomorrow's classroom

Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science ...




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