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Laughter Releases ‘Feel Good Hormones’ to Promote Social Bonding

By Honor Whiteman — 2017

Even in the hardest of times, laughter has a steadfast ability to bring people together. A new study reveals how laughter affects the brain, which may help to explain why having a giggle plays such an important role in social bonding.

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Stephen W. Porges, PhD: Q&A About Freezing, Fainting, and the ‘Safe’ Sounds of Music Therapy

[Porges'] widely-cited polyvagal theory contends that living creatures facing or sensing mortal danger will immobilize, even “play dead,” as a last resort.

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Margot Slade
2018
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Why We’re Sometimes Kind Without Reason

Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.

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Charles Montgomery
2013
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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

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Ashley Fetters
2018
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The 9 Major Research Areas in Social Psychology

Here are just a few of the major areas of interest within social psychology.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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How Scammers Like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler Exploit a Core Feature of Human Nature

Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.

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Vanessa Bohns
2022
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What Our Negative Comments and Consumer Gripes on Social Media Reveal about Us

To figure out why people complain so much on social media, we analysed negative posts on Facebook about brands caught up in media controversies at the time.

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Angela R. Dobele, Ashleigh Powell
2022
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How Are The Mind & The Brain Different? A Neuroscientist Explains

So what exactly is the difference between the mind and the brain? Well, the mind is separate, yet inseparable from, the brain. The mind uses the brain, and the brain responds to the mind.

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Caroline Leaf
2021
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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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Neuroscience News
2022
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How We All Could Benefit from Synaesthesia

Developing the mysterious condition in the 96% of people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age

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Helen Massy-Beresford
2014
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An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Are you searching for a way to cope with a mental health challenge or even with everyday life? Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective approach for many people.

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2022
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