News tagged with social rewards

Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation

Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors: study

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University ...

Biology / Other

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetic variation cues social anxiety in monkeys and humans

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, social anxiety and schizophrenia. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

American Express plants money trees in "Farmville"

American Express on Tuesday began letting lovers of Zynga games plant money trees on "Farmville" acreage.

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Growing smarter engineers with FarmVille

There are no agriculture majors at Missouri University of Science and Technology, but some engineering students on the campus have taken up virtual planting and harvesting through the social networking game ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Promises come at a price

Be careful what you promise people. You are not just obliging yourself to keep your promises; other people will hold you to account for them as well. Dutch-sponsored researcher Manuela Vieth investigated how the behaviour ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1