Understanding how interactions between genes and the environment influence social behavior is a fundamental research goal. In a new study, researchers at the University of Lausanne and the University ...
... is the focus of a number of articles in the September issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, the quarterly journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The following briefs ...
... the typical facial features and severe deficits in visual spatial skills, but lacks the overly social behavior, it suggested to us that GTF2IRD1 contributes to visual-spatial performance while GTF2I ...
... children filled out surveys that measured their levels of depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior, as well as other measures that were not investigated in this study. Parents and teachers filled ...
... with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show profound deficits in social interactions and communications, and display repetitive behaviors and abnormal responses to sensory experiences. One aspect of ...
... of psychology and member of Northwestern's Center for Technology and Social Behavior.
In both of the classic social psychology experiments used for the study, one avatar tried to influence another ...
... influences brain function and social behavior, the authors write, social information also alters gene ...
Thanks to the newly sequenced genomes of several social animals, including honey bees and zebra ...
... depression and coping techniques, thinking and cognitive remodeling techniques, relaxation activities, social behavior abilities, etc.
The other half of patients in the study received usual treatment ...
An ingenious social behavior that mobilizes yeast cells to cooperate in protecting each other from stress, antibiotics and other dangers is driven by the activity of a single gene, scientists report ...
... organisms to become multi-cellular?" she said.
"The big thing we found is that Dictyostelium discoideum have social behavior," said Dr. Mariko Katoh, an instructor in molecular and human genetics ...
A genetic variation involving the brain chemical serotonin has been found to shape the social behavior of rhesus macaque monkeys, which could provide researchers with a new model for studying autism, ...
Bees have an innate tendency to form social connections. What is the origin of this social behavior? Researchers have discovered that distribution of labor, which is a feature of the social ...
... disaster struck. This find indicates that Triceratops juveniles congregated in small herds, a social behavior increasingly identified in other dinosaur groups, such as Psittacosaurus, a small cousin ...
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"Everyone wants to know how genes control behavior," notes Anderson. "But in order to apply powerful genetic analyses to complicated social behaviors like aggression and courtship, you need ...
... out the study.*
A mother who experienced trauma prior to becoming pregnant affects the emotional and social behavior of her offspring. This was discovered for the first time in a new study that was ...
