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Society/Altruism Why some of us help our fellow man while others stay selfish has long been a riddle to scientists. Now, Scott Huettel, an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University and colleagues are beginning to form a picture of how our brains drive altruism. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: brain imaging and altruism
Society/Altruism In contrast, we report experimental evidence that chimpanzees perform basic forms of helping in the absence of rewards spontaneously and repeatedly toward humans and conspecifics. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: altruism may not be unique to humans
Society/Autism If observing behavior occurs in the same area as actually behaving, then social interaction would seem to play a large role in cognition. It explains, for example, why spectators at a boxing match sometimes jab at the air and why seeing a violent blow to the head makes them recoil physically. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: mirror neurons and autism
Society/Cooperation Good manners and basic social skills such as taking turns are just as important to kids' success in school as a focus on reading, writing and 'rithmetic, a new book suggests. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: social skills and success
Society/Cooperation According to the researchers, companies reap greater benefits when they are part of a network that exhibits a high degree of clustering and only a few degrees of separation, both of which are characteristic of a small world network. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: business allliances and innovation
Society/Cooperation individuals who cooperate and compete well in a social setting do better and produce more offspring than less skilled individuals Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: social cognition
Society/Cooperation “What we found, however, was that people working as individuals were at least as effective and possibly more so than those brainstorming in a group over the web when trying to solve ‘wicked,’ tangled problems, both in terms of quality and quantity.” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: problem solving
Society/Culture While recent Internet developments have received widespread media coverage, the organisers say there has so far been little in the way of sustained investigation by social scientists into 'Web 2.0'. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: user-generated content and blogging
Society/Culture “Genuine thrillseekers only need apply to take part in this experiment at Alton Towers. Oblivion's success as one of the world's most exciting rollercoasters relies on a perfect synergy between extreme physical and dark psychological experiences, giving us a unique opportunity to study the science of thrills and shape the future of theme park rides." Link *now that's "designing for experience" Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: measuring experience
Society/Culture "Fresh evidence that suggests monkeys can learn skills from each other, in the same manner as humans . . . While not conclusive, his research adds to a mounting body of evidence that suggests other species have something approaching human culture." Link *maybe we better stop calling it "human" culture Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: culture and nonhumans
Society/Culture Field reports provide increasing evidence for local behavioral traditions among fish, birds, and mammals. These findings are significant for evolutionary biology because social learning affords faster adaptation than genetic change and has generated new (cultural) forms of evolution. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: social learning and adaptation
Society/Culture An important new study appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research finds that it is rarely the case that highly influential individuals are responsible for bringing about shifts in public opinion. Link *abstract from Journal of Consumer Research Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: influence and public opinion
Society/Culture The Pentagon's top health official said Thursday he wants to see better mental health assessments, stronger privacy protections and a "buddy system" to change the military's stigma against seeking help for anxiety and depression. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: veterans, society and mental health
Society/Exclusion While a large part of how the brain responds to physical pain remains mysterious, a series of recent discoveries has unveiled an evolutionary efficiency: the brain circuits and structures that respond to a twisted ankle also recognize a stinging rebuke. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: physical and emotional pain related
Society/Exclusion “We found that the experience of social exclusion literally feels cold,” Zhong said. “This may be why people use temperature-related metaphors to describe social inclusion and exclusion.” Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: cold and social isolation
Society/Expectation Women told that female under-achievement in mathematics is due to genetic factors perform much worse on maths tests than those told that social factors are responsible. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Society/Social Networking The online survey which forms the main part of their ongoing research has revealed that face-to-face encounters are, perhaps unsurprisingly, still the most important factor in close friendships. Link Show/Hide Date & Source
Key Phrase: social networking and friendship
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