Two socializing zebrafish. (Luke A. Hammond & Jeremy Ullmann) Imagine spotting someone across the room at a party, then ...

We experience the world and connect with others through social interactions. Engaging in activities, such as conversations, cooperative tasks, and intimate relationships, deeply affect brain activity ...

Researchers track 72 students to prove heart rates synchronize during close proximity and shared attention, serving as a real-world marker for social engagement.

Engaging in meaningful social interactions with peers is associated with lower loneliness and greater affective well-being, new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science finds ...

Social interactions are essential for building societies and fostering cooperation among individuals. These behaviors are governed by complex norms and signaling mechanisms promoting mutual engagement ...

Compartment models have been proposed in the 1920s as a model for the spread of an infectious disease in a society, in a famous article by Kermack and ...

Scientists typically predict how species evolve by looking at their genes and the environment they live in, but new research from the University of Aberdeen has highlighted a key factor that's often ...

The structure of social networks affects many aspects of human behaviour and, perhaps more than any other paradigm, lays bare the shortcomings of the ‘economic man’ perspective. Human beings do not ...

Key points Little is known about the brain and developmental factors shaping stereotypes' impact on social interactions. A new study links stereotype effects to individual variation in a crucial ...

Our brains use basic "building blocks" of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL ...