Category: Relations
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Damaged brains…
Researchers have identified specific sub-populations of brain cells in the prefrontal cortex, a key part of the brain that regulates social behavior, that are required for normal sociability in adulthood and are profoundly vulnerable to juvenile social isolation in mice. (1) Damaged brain. Making us distance ourselves. Undamaged brain. Making us speak with others. Afraid…
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Sharing.
In the modern world, people cooperate with other people including strangers all the time. Researchers reporting in Current Biology who've studied Hadza hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania over a six-year period have new and surprising insight into why people work together. The findings show that it isn't that people who like to share choose to live…
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e-Book. Not mine! Being here. Touching.
Decoding digital ownership: Why your e-book might not feel like 'yours'. People feel very differently about owning physical books versus e-books, a recent study shows. While stereotypes suggest that younger consumers prefer digital books, that is not actually the case, researchers found. Despite stereotypes that paint millennials as "all technology, all the time," young people…
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Divorce. Separation. Matter. Soul.
Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those who grew up in two-parent families - and genetic factors are the primary explanation, according to a study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden. The study's findings are notable because they diverge from the predominant narrative…
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Arranged marriages or marriages out of love? A not so easy to answer question...
- Have your married out of love? - Of course! What a silly question! Is it silly? While in our society and in any other "progressive" society the marriage out of love is the norm, there are still some societies (like India, S. Arabia etc.) where many marriages are arranged. The question is whether these…
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