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·November 13, 2024·4 min read

Stress in Social Groups: How One’s Stress Affects the Whole

New research on zebra finches reveals that stress spreads within social groups, even affecting individuals not directly exposed to stressors. Birds in groups with more stressed members showed reduced movement and changes in social behavior, such as fewer social bonds.

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·October 23, 2024·5 min read

How Social Learning Guides Decisions When Preferences Differ

A new study shows that humans use social information to guide their decisions, even when others’ preferences differ from their own. Researchers found that people treat social cues as helpful but less reliable than their personal experiences, using them as a tool to explore decision options.

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·November 24, 2023·5 min read

Brain Power in Teamwork: Unveiling Cooperation Through EEG and Pacman

A new study examines cooperative behavior through the classic game Pacman. The experiment involved two players guiding Pacman collaboratively, with one player seeing the maze path and communicating directions indirectly.

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·September 1, 2023·5 min read

Revolutionizing Animal Behavior Studies with Cutting-Edge Tech

Researchers unveiled SMART-BARN, a state-of-the-art facility to study the group behavior of animals. Housed in an 18th-century barn and a gymnasium-sized Imaging Hangar, the tool uses high-throughput techniques like optical and acoustic tracking to monitor animals in 3D.

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·April 2, 2022·4 min read

Examining the Link Between Blood Pressure and Emotions

Men with hypertension more often recognized angry expressions when looking at the face of another person. The anger recognition bias contributed to blood pressure increases over time if a person frequently tends to feel angry.

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·May 16, 2020·4 min read

Acute stress may slow down the spread of fears

Stress alters how we process and share risky information. Researchers report people were less likely to amplify fears in conversations when they were feeling stressed.

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·August 9, 2017·3 min read

Mapping the Brain

Researchers have constructed a detailed brain map of the mushroom body in the fruit fly brain. The mushroom body is implicated in creating and storing memories for sensory information.