Friendships are complicated. Several years ago researchers told us that our ability to attract friends may be in our genes. Surrounded by friends? It's all in your genes | Reuters. Today we are ...

A link between the neurotransmitter dopamine and the mentalising abilities of healthy people has been identified for the first time in a new study. Mentalising describes the act of attributing and ...

Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain -- known as the orbital prefrontal cortex -- that is found just above the ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. "Friendship" Courtesy of GLB Drummond ...

The secret of popularity may be being able to guess what other people are thinking - and in particular to guess what other people want. Researchers found that the area of the brain used to 'mentalise' ...

Mentalising describes the act of attributing and understanding mental states (such as thoughts, feelings or intentions) in other people and in oneself. Researchers at the University of Birmingham have ...

I’m in absolute awe of people who don’t read fiction. And, of late, I’ve been running into more than a few who boast they don’t. It’s never said as an apology. They are proud that they stick to hard ...

Belief in God - or other higher powers - might be linked to a person's ability to imagine what others think and feel. The discovery could mean that people who find it difficult to 'mentalise' - think ...