prosociality
Americannoun
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The University of Cambridge study used data from more than 10,000 people born between 2000 and 2002 to understand the long-term interplay between our early relationships with our parents, prosociality and mental health.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2023
More generally, their understandings of oxytocin and serotonin are greatly oversimplified; for example, scientists increasingly view oxytocin not as fostering prosociality per se, but as “increasing the salience of social cues”—prosocial and antisocial alike.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2022
The researcher, who studied prosociality and wellbeing before leaving academia to pursue commercial opportunities, also lobbed criticisms at Facebook for its addictive nature.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018
“I wanted to test human prosociality in an everyday situation,” he says.
From Nature ● Oct. 11, 2017
When we are mindful of the vulnerability of niceness to the depredations of nastiness, however, increasing prosociality must be handled with care.
From Forbes ● Sep. 16, 2013
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