How do we recognize other people's emotions?

For recognizing people's emotions, facial expressions do play an important role. However, they are not the only crucial factor.

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Are ideas contagious?

As flu season approaches, researchers are discovering that the flu and fake news have far more in common than we may think.

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Childhood social interactions can combat stereotypes

Prior research has found that exposure to social diversity in early life, such as through day care, influences how people communicate. Those early social experiences can also moderate tendencies toward stereotyping down the road, according to a new study.

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How social structure influences the way people share money

A study of informal finance finds that in East Africa, money moves in very different patterns depending on whether societies are structured around family units or age-based groups.

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A method of 'look twice, forgive once' can sustain social cooperation

Using mathematical modeling, researchers found a way to maintain cooperation without relying on complex norms or institutions.

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How synchronization supports social interactions

Turn-taking dynamics of social interactions are important for speech and gesture synchronization, enabling conversations to proceed efficiently, according to a new study.

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Networks of Beliefs theory integrates internal and external dynamics

The beliefs we hold develop from a complex dance between our internal and external lives. A recent study uses well-known formalisms in statistical physics to model multiple aspects of belief-network dynamics. This multidimensional approach to modeling belief dynamics could offer new tools for tackling various real-world problems such as polarization or the spread of disinformation.

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