Understanding how interactions between genes and the environment influence social behaviour is a fundamental research goal. In a new study, researchers at the University of Lausanne and the University ...
Unravelling the genetics of social behaviour and cognitive abilities, researchers at the University of Utah and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have traced the role of two genes, GTF2I and ...
... with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show profound deficits in social interactions and communications, and display repetitive behaviours and abnormal responses to sensory experiences. One aspect of ...
... example, why sterile workers evolved in social insect groups and why a honeybee would ... generally been seen as essential for the evolution of highly social behaviour and until recently, kin selection ...
Past behaviour is generally considered to be a good predictor of future behaviour, but new research indicates that may not be the case in the development of depression, particularly among adolescent ...
... Veterans Affairs Medical Centre and the University of Pennsylvania, and Diane S. Lauderdale of the University of Chicago, published in the September issue of Journal of Health and Social Behaviour...
... people "divorce is the most justifiable behaviour" among a series of proposed social behaviours such as prostitution, abortion or euthanasia. With an average of 6.42 out of a possible 10, divorce is ...
... used finger ratios as an indicator of the levels of exposure to the hormone and compared this data with social behaviour in primate groups. The team found that Old World monkeys, such as baboons and ...
... such as aggression during social decision-making. Serotonin has long been associated with social behaviour, but its precise involvement in impulsive aggression has been controversial. Though many ...
... Study and Volterra Consulting UK shows that social networking is a key factor in the spread of the rapid ... aspect is the huge rise in drunken and anti-social behaviour amongst young females.
"We show ...
... as a non-intrusive means of capturing detailed and reliable data on the population dynamics and social behaviour of endangered species.
The research advances techniques that originated in computer ...
... happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behaviour of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals ...
... that a change in hormone levels may alter the way we perceive social cues by altering a system of brain nuclei, common to all vertebrates, called the 'social behaviour network'...
An ingenious social behaviour that mobilises 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 ...
... opposite to the verbal message.
Traditional treatments have emphasised training in positive social behaviours, such as turn-taking, giving compliments, and reducing undesirable behaviours, such as ...
