concept

sociality

Also known as: sociability

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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org Frontiers 13 facts

measurementIn a study of 40 healthy subjects, Dolder et al. (2016) found that LSD increased happiness, trust, closeness to others, emotional empathy, and sociality.

claimPsychedelics functionally modulate the activity and connectivity of the frontoparietal network and the Default Mode Network (DMN), which can enhance cognitive functioning and sociality, according to research by Carhart-Harris and Friston (2019), Vollenweider and Preller (2020), Cini et al. (2019), and Preller and Vollenweider (2019).

claimIf psilocybin systematically increased the frequency of laughter, music-making, dancing, ritualization, and prosocial leadership in ancient populations, it could have influenced human evolution by modifying the conditions for selection and favoring genetic variants that enhance sociality, cognition, and communication.

claimThe expansion of sociality and inter-generational cultural learning was essential for the preservation of expertise and the growth of cognitive capital through cumulative cultural evolution.

claimThe collective use of psychedelics may have facilitated complex sociality and communication in early human groups by enriching social life, bolstering rhetorical activity, managing group tension through emotional catharsis, and strengthening social bonds by triggering the endorphin system.

claimThe instrumentalization of psilocybin could have enhanced performance in domains such as cognition, sociality, communication, and social learning, potentially increasing the adaptability and fitness of human ancestors.

claimIf psychedelics engendered mental states with adaptive effects on health, social bonding, and decision-making, this would have led to subsequent genetic and cultural selection for the ability and motivation to alter consciousness through non-drug means that promote salutogenesis, sociality, and creativity.

claimDolder et al. (2016) found that LSD acutely impairs fear recognition while enhancing emotional empathy and sociality, published in Neuropsychopharmacology.

claimThrough the Baldwin effect, selection for genetic variants that make the acquisition of creativity and sociality faster and less dependent on environmental signals, such as ritual psychedelic consumption, would have eventually occurred in ancient human populations.

claimPsychedelic instrumentalization acted as an enabling factor in the development of the human socio-cognitive niche by mediating the expansion of ritual alterations of consciousness, healing, social bonding, and decision-making activities, which accelerated the spread of biological components of sociality, cognition, and communication skills in the human lineage.

referenceSteven Pinker (2010) published 'The cognitive niche: coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language' in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, exploring the evolutionary development of human cognitive traits.

referenceRodríguez Arce, J. M. and Winkelman, M. J. (2021) authored the article 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution', published in Frontiers in Psychology.

claimPsychedelics significantly modulate aspects of creativity and sociality, which could have enhanced adaptability and fitness in knowledge-using, socially interdependent lifeways, according to Girn et al. (2020) and Preller and Vollenweider (2019).

The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences - Frontiers frontiersin.org Frontiers Sep 27, 2017 1 fact

claimLSD acutely impairs fear recognition while simultaneously enhancing emotional empathy and sociality in humans, according to a 2016 study by Dolder et al.

The Evolutionary Impact of Dietary Shifts on Physical and Cognitive ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Daniele Del Rio, Emeran A Mayer, Pedro Mena · Elsevier BV 1 fact

referenceBoth diet and sociality affect primate brain-size evolution, according to Grabowski.

Why Sleep Matters: Consequences of Sleep Deficiency sleep.hms.harvard.edu Harvard Medical School 1 fact

measurementIn a study where subjects slept four hours per night, they showed declining levels of optimism and sociability as the number of days of inadequate sleep increased, with symptoms improving dramatically upon returning to a normal sleep schedule.

Stress, Lifestyle, and Health – Introduction to Psychology open.maricopa.edu Maricopa Open Digital Press 1 fact

measurementIn a study of 334 participants, increased sociability was linearly associated with a decreased probability of developing a common cold after exposure to a virus.