Whether it’s joy or anger, we’re wired to catch and spread emotions. Here's how to inoculate ourselves against negative ones. Behaving the right ways and sending the right signals plays a big role in ...
Being able to comprehend another person’s intentions and emotions is essential for successful social interaction. However, it is currently unknown whether the human brain possesses a neural mechanism ...
Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Behaving the right ways and ...
A review of studies of interpersonal attraction as related to the transmission of various nonverbal cues indicates that there is some evidence for a relationship, but the external validity of many of ...
Finkel, Eli J., Michael I. Norton, Harry T. Reis, Dan Ariely, Peter A. Caprariello, Paul W. Eastwick, Jenna H. Frost, and Michael R. Maniaci. "When Does Familiarity ...
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, our attention turns to the topic of love. But in real life, before love, there is the matter of attraction. Social psychologists and neurobiologists have long ...
If attraction were always mutual, it stands to reason that you would always be attracted to the people who are attracted to you and vice versa. However, that's not always the case. Certain factors can ...
The realities of modern work lives—greater diversity, lengthening work hours, permeation of work environment into social life, and increasingly liberal social mores—mean that workplace relationships ...
Citations: Finkel, Eli J., M. Norton, H. Reis, D. Ariely, P. Caprariello, P. Eastwick, J Frost, M. Maniaci. 2015. When does familiarity promote versus undermine ...