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This is Part 2 of the experiment which found that boys are jerks.
Showing posts with label sociability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sociability. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Social experiment: Girls are "nice" (video)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
How To Succeed at Speed Dating (video)
Dev, Kelly, Wisdom Quarterly; Hurry Adele (HurryDate.com); Metro.net; Allison Armstrong
This educational video addresses the topic of
"speed dating." It was shot for Oxford University Press for a video textbook. After learning the basics, dive in. Sign
up for a speed dating party at HurryDate.com
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| With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Brown University presents us with a chance to make personal connections in less time than it takes to read this with not one but two speed dating events. Blog Daily Herald has eight useful tips for speed dating More |
On Valentine's Day Metro is pleased to present...Speed Dating!
On Valentine's Day Metro Los Angeles (train system) is pleased to present SPEED DATING on the Red Line! It will take place from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. Metro staff will be at seven Red Line stations to tell everyone how. Register in advance. Whether you believe love is a matter of “fate” or coincidence, luck or strategy, you can have your
own “meet someone cute” moment by participating in Speed Dating L.A. style. Try it on a shiny train that's moving on smoggy tracks while you dodge deranged bums, insufferable hipsters, and the great mass of weirdos we call “neighbor” or would would call if anyone spoke to anybody else. Try smiling first. That's life in the Big City. Just ask Steve Hymon (thesource.metro.net). More
Life in Los Angeles riding the Metro (2:00 minute flick)
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(Aware Show) Alison Armstrong on celebrating men, satisfying women
(Mike Reynolds) Men, learn how to be charming in 7 steps
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Being a "people person" is all in your head
(HealthDayNews.com) -- Regions of the brain that process pleasurable experiences such as sweet tastes and sexual stimuli are the same ones that determine whether an individual is a "people person," say European researchers.
They used MRI to scan the brains of 41 males who'd completed a questionnaire designed to measure their emotional warmth and sociability. Those who were most social had greater concentrations of grey matter (brain-cell containing tissue) in the orbito-frontal cortex (the outer strip of the brain just above the eyes) and in the ventral striatum (located in the center of the brain).
Previous research has shown that both areas play an important role in processing simple rewards such as sweet tastes or sexual stimuli.
"It's interesting that the degree to which we find social interaction rewarding relates to the structure of our brains in regions that are important for simple biological drives such as foods, sweet liquids and sex. Perhaps this gives us a clue to how complex features like sentimentality and affection evolved from structures that in lower animals originally were only important for basic biological survival processes," research leader Dr. Graham Murray, of the University of Cambridge in England, said in a university news release.
"Sociability and emotional warmth are very complex features of our personality. This research helps us understand at a biological level why people differ in the degrees to which we express those traits," he said. However, Murray noted that this research is "only correlational and cross-sectional" and "cannot prove that brain structure determines personality. It could even be that your personality, through experience, helps in part to determine your brain structure."
The study appears in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This area of research could help improve understanding of mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia, in which social interaction is a major problem.
"Patients with certain psychiatric conditions often experience difficulties in feeling emotional closeness, and this can have a big impact on their life. It could be that the cause of these difficulties is at least partly due to brain structural features of those disorders," Murray said.
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