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social interaction
Also known as: social interactions, social interplay
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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 10 facts
claimRilling and Sanfey (2011) established that striatal dopamine promotes social living and increases the reward derived from social interactions.
claimThe model proposed in 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' suggests that psilocybin ingestion would have amplified capacities for complex social interaction and cognitive abilities, including creativity, non-verbal and linguistic expression, and suggestibility.
measurementIn a study of 17 healthy subjects, Kometer et al. (2012) found that psychedelics enhanced social approach behaviors and social interaction by increasing positive mood states and decreasing the recognition of negative facial expressions.
claimPsychedelics could have increased adaptability and fitness in hominins by serving as instruments to enhance performance in non-drug-related behaviors, specifically managing psychological distress, treating health problems, improving social interaction, facilitating collective ritual and religious activities, and enhancing group decision-making.
claimThe authors of 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' identify four interrelated psychedelic instrumentalization goals: management of psychological distress and health problems, improved social interaction and interpersonal relations, facilitation of collective ritual and religious activities, and enhanced group decision-making.
claimResearchers have proposed that instrumentalization goals for drug use include improved social interaction, improved cognitive performance, counteracting fatigue, facilitated recovery, coping with psychological stress, and the facilitation of spiritual and religious activities.
claimThe use of psychedelics is influenced by cultural priors, social interactions, and contextual factors, a process described as the socialization of hallucinations in a 2021 study by D. Dupuis.
claimThe cognitive niche is defined as a social and cultural niche where humans adapt through skills, values, ideas, and social interactions acquired from others in culturally scaffolded environments.
claimDe Gregorio et al. (2021b) demonstrated that repeated administration of low doses of LSD in mice enhances social interaction by potentiating 5-HT2A and AMPA receptor neurotransmission in the medial prefrontal cortex via increased phosphorylation of the mTORC1 protein.
referenceYoung, S. N. and Leyton, M. (2002) published 'The role of serotonin in human mood and social interaction. Insight from altered tryptophan levels' in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior.
The Role of Language in Shaping Social Identity and Cultural ... aithor.com Apr 24, 2025 3 facts
claimIndividuals often hide or veil their genuine feelings during social interactions that require adherence to rules, norms, and cultural structures of symbols.
claimEthical study of social interaction and language should consider the wider implications and agendas that influence social practice, such as the formation of super-diverse youth populations in inner London.
claimIdentity and social interaction are culture-oriented activities that lead to the negotiation of culture, where people establish and manage common idiosyncrasies and cultural knowledge.
Editorial: Recent Advances in Electroreception and Electrogeneration frontiersin.org 2 facts
measurementContrast levels of electrosensory stimuli in natural social interactions routinely reach much higher values than those typically utilized in laboratory settings, as revealed by Yu et al.
claimYu et al. found that the contrast of electrosensory stimuli experienced by electric fish during social interactions depends significantly on the relative distance and orientation between the animals.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 2 facts
claimSocial interactions studied in social epistemology range in timescale from immediate face-to-face communication to the transmission of cultural knowledge across generations, and in social scale from dyads to large, anonymous institutions.
claimSocial epistemology is the study of knowledge and related phenomena as they manifest within social interactions.
The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimNicholas Humphrey's 1992 social cognition theory argues that the origin of consciousness lies in the capacity to create a theory of mind for others, which enables complex social interactions.
(PDF) Self-consciousness, self-attention, and social interaction researchgate.net Feb 27, 2017 1 fact
measurementThe study titled "Self-consciousness, self-attention, and social interaction" conducted two experiments with a total of 128 female undergraduates to test the effects of self-focused attention on positive and negative social interactions.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 1 fact
claimOne empirical proposal suggests that self-consciousness emerges as a self-directed form of mindreading, derived from early social interaction and the capacity to understand others.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimReductionists can potentially treat experiences of testimony, communication, and social interactions as data, where the best explanation is that many individual cases of testimony are true.
Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Jun 14, 2024 1 fact
perspectiveThe findings from the McGill and MILA study suggest that current diagnostic criteria for autism, which focus on deficits in social interplay, need to be revised.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
perspectivePsychologist Cecilia Heyes argues that the human mind is not a collection of cognitive instincts shaped by genetic evolution over long periods, but rather consists of 'cognitive gadgets'—special-purpose organs of thought built during development through social interaction.