News tagged with attachment behavior

Strong attachment to local communities made oil spill more stressful for many coastal residents

A major concern related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the impact on people living in coastal areas. News reports provided anecdotal evidence that those living along the coast and reliant on the fishing or ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Hormone oxytocin bolsters childhood memories of mom's affections

Researchers have found that the naturally-occurring hormone and neurotransmitter oxytocin intensifies men's memories of their mother's affections during childhood. The study was published today in Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exploration in toddlers activated by fathers

A new study has found that fathers give toddlers more leeway and that allows them to actively explore their environments, according to a new study on parent-child attachment published in Early Child Development and Care.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The neurobiology of musicality related to the intrinsic attachment behavior?

Music is social communication between individuals -- humming of lullabies attach infant to parent and singing or playing music adds croup cohesion. The neurobiology of music perception and production is likely to be related ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Faithful females who choose good providers key to evolutionary shift to modern family, study finds

In early human evolution, when faithful females began to choose good providers as mates, pair-bonding replaced promiscuity, laying the foundation for the emergence of the institution of the modern family, a new study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 16 hours ago | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 43 | with audio podcast feature

Calling familiar assumptions into question results in better materials design

(Phys.org) -- Carbon and fluorine are at the heart of a family of chemical compounds that can be used for nonstick coatings, blood substitutes, and seemingly everything in between.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zooarchaeological study indicating hominids already practiced sophisticated hunting techniques in East Asia

More than ten thousands of bone fragments were recovered from the Lingjing site, Henan Province during 2005 and 2006. By taking statistical analyses of the skeletal elements of the two predominant species ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Track Atlantic bluefin tuna to learn migration, habitat secrets

New fish-tagging studies of young bluefin tuna in Atlantic waters off New England by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are offering the first fishery-independent, year-round data on dispersal ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researcher develops personalized search engines

(Phys.org) -- With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elephant seal tracking reveals hidden lives of deep-diving animals

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who pioneered the use of satellite tags to monitor the migrations of elephant seals have compiled one of the largest datasets available for any marine mammal species, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover first ever record of insect pollination from 100 million years ago

Amber from Cretaceous deposits (110-105 my) in Northern Spain has revealed the first ever record of insect pollination. Scientists have discovered in two pieces of amber several specimens of tiny insects covered ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Researchers use light to switch on gene expression

Imagine being able to control genetic expression by flipping a light switch. Researchers at North Carolina State University are using light-activated molecules to turn gene expression on and off. Their method enables greater ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smartphone users develop new concepts of privacy in public spaces: study

With endless applications, high-speed wireless Internet access, and free messaging services, smart phones have revolutionized the way we communicate. But at what cost? According to researchers at Tel Aviv University, the ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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