News tagged with social interaction

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (40) | comments 61

Physics rules network dynamics

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 0

'The friend of my enemy is my enemy': Virtual universe study proves 80-year-old theory on how humans interact

A new study analysing interactions between players in a virtual universe game has for the first time provided large-scale evidence to prove an 80 year old psychological theory called Structural Balance Theory. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

To scientists, laughter is no joke -- it's serious

(AP) -- So a scientist walks into a shopping mall to watch people laugh.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 10

Twin fetuses learn how to be social in the womb

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have a deep-seated urge to be social, and new research on the interactions of twins in the womb suggests this begins even before babies are born.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 421 | with audio podcast report

Ants die alone, protecting their nest mates from infection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying ants have discovered that when they are seriously ill they voluntarily go away from the nest to die, which reduces the chances of them passing their infection to nest mates.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 8

Brain structure corresponds to personality

Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Addressing negative thoughts most effective in fighting loneliness

Changing how a person perceives and thinks about others was the most effective intervention for loneliness, a sweeping analysis of previous research has determined. The findings may help physicians and psychologists develop ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Teaching robots to move like humans (w/ Video)

When people communicate, the way they move has as much to do with what they're saying as the words that come out of their mouths. But what about when robots communicate with people? How can robots use non-verbal ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Are angry women more like men?

"Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Star-shaped cells in the brain aid with learning

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Excessive Internet use is linked to depression

People who spend a lot of time browsing the net are more likely to show depressive symptoms, according to the first large-scale study of its kind in the West by University of Leeds psychologists.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Contact with dads drops when women ovulate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Through an innovative use of cell phone records, researchers at UCLA, the University of Miami and Cal State, Fullerton, have found that women appear to avoid contact with their fathers during ovulation.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Relationships improve your odds of survival by 50 percent

A new Brigham Young University study adds our social relationships to the "short list" of factors that predict a person's odds of living or dying.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Social interaction

Social interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions according to those of their interaction partner(s). In other words, they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly.

Social interactions can be differentiated into:

In sociological hierarchy, social interaction is more advanced than behavior, action, social behavior, social action and social contact, and is in turn followed by more advanced concept of social relation. In other words, social interactions, which consist of social actions, form the basis for social relations.

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