Sentences with phrase «as social glue»

The chameleon effect as social glue: Evidence for the evolutionary significance of nonconscious mimcry.

And she wants to know how complex systems stay robust in the face of shocks, like the macaques with their own police force that acts as social glue.

And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

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Using your content as fuel to give users something of value and tying in some kind of social media integration, email marketing can serve as a type of glue to hold your other strategies together.

He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

We certainly don't face a Stunde Null, but there are new and profound challenges to the post-war, middle - class consensus that once glued us together and helped us answer the social question: How are we as individuals to share a common life together as a nation?

They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships.

Forer had simply selected some general statements, such as «you have a need for other people to like and admire you» and «you have a great deal of unused creative potential», from a book of astrological readings and glued them together (Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, vol 44, p 118).

A large body of research in communication shows how touch is used as a social «glue» between people — building relationships and influencing trust.

The research suggests that, despite its unpleasantness, pain may actually have positive social consequences, acting as a sort of «social glue» that fosters cohesion and solidarity within groups:

If one of you was glued to the television watching the inauguration activities, while simultaneously recording it so you can watch it again as you posted your thoughts live on social media, and your partner went on a media moratorium and went to work or did other activities because they didn't believe America would be great again, you know already that you weren't on the same page.

Abstract: Across the country, states are pushing to close their small rural schools with the mistaken hope of saving money, in spite of overwhelming evidence that smaller schools are beneficial for students, and that they frequently function as the glue that binds together small communities, serving as their economic and social hub.

Working with white wood glue and multi-coloured inks, where their flows on her canvases are directed by gravity and the nature of the materials as much as by the artist's own hand, she opens her process up not just for scrutiny but for deep engagement with the audience and with the political and social ecology of the world around her.

Their Tock app is referred to as an «anti-social mobile application» that can help the phone addicted to actually engage in face - to - face interactions during social gatherings, instead of being glued to their smartphone screens.

In contrast, marriage is often thought of as the foundation of our communities, functioning as a sort of social glue.

You may have heard oxytocin referred to as the «trust hormone», «love hormone», «cuddle hormone», «social glue» and «essence of empathy».