The hormone progesterone is known to contribute to the
formation of social bonds, which have many adaptive benefits for humans.
If so, poetry and art may be interpreted as
forms of social bonding that linger long after the initial mother - infant attachment is outgrown.
He is well known for his research on the neuroscience
of social bonding in voles, and recently co-authored a book titled «The Chemistry Between Us.»
«The reason people get addicted to opioids is because they carry the
message of social bonding,» Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist who studies psychiatric disorders and behavior, told Business Insider.
Thanks to the
breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.
The social subsystem provides for socialization and for the
maintenance of social bonds, and it furnishes procedures for resolving societal conflicts.
For nearly 3 years, they gathered
evidence of social bonding such as mares grooming each other or coming into close contact (less than two body lengths away).
Brene Brown, Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and expert in the field of social connection, explains that vulnerability is a core
ingredient of social bonding.
Rie Davies said: «This study provides support for prior research by Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) 1 and also highlights the need for schools and parents to understand the important role music making has in children's lives in
terms of social bonding and helping behaviours.
Correlations in emotional expressions of different users indicate the
presence of social bonds among chat room users and highlights the similarities between online and offline communication.
His research has revealed that brain chemicals such as oxytocin and vasopressin regulate the neural processing of social information and promote the formation
of social bonds by acting in specific neural pathways.
Using the monogamous prairie vole (vs. the promiscuous meadow vole) as a model organism, Young and his research team identified the oxytocin and vasopressin receptors as key
mediators of social bonding and attachment.
In the 1980s, Argentinian writer and conceptual artist Roberto Jacoby and the legendary music group Virus (lead by singer Federico Moura and started as poetic resistance to the political management of the AIDS epidemic) responded to the total
destruction of the social bond through dictatorship and to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of people with what he called «the strategy of joy.»
According to recent neuroimaging data in humans, this role for the opioid system appears to apply to the distress associated with the
severance of a social bond in adulthood as well.
However, this behavior is beneficial because it is associated to several indirect effects such as the construction or
consolidation of social bonds, the expression of esteem, the transmission of affection and warmth, and assistance (Rimé, 2005).
We shed new lights on both the bright and dark
sides of social bonds on cheating, demonstrate bad company corrupts good morals, differently, across culture and gender, and provide practical implications to social bonding, business ethics, and cheating.
Noting the way capitalism circumscribes life to a relation with the market, Allan Sekula writes «[t] hese forces sought to organize people as atomized «private individuals,» motivated en masse by the prospect of consumption, thus liquidating other dangerously oppositional
forms of social bonding.»
These findings highlight the importance of distinguishing the different
kinds of social bonds that children form with peers.
Professor Mark Dadds, of the UNSW School of Psychology, says previous research suggested that oxytocin — a hormone with powerful effects on brain activity linked to the
formation of social bonds — could have benefits for children with the disorder.
Those kind
of social bonds, broad and deep, are passed on by generations and can not easily be recreated in new or fast - paced milieus.
That tending comes in the form
of social bonds — between parent and child, between parents, among the extended social family members who help raise the child.
Promiscuous sex can also be a form
of social bonding.
Socialization is about the forming
of social bonds and the ability of the puppy to integrate into human society, and family life.
The nonapeptides, OT, and AVP, have been implicated in the regulation of social recognition and the display of prosocial / proximity - seeking behaviors — processes important for the formation
of social bonds — as well as the formation of the bond itself (reviewed by Insel, 1992; Dluzen et al., 2001; Young, 2002; Bielsky and Young, 2004; Winslow and Insel, 2004; Wacker and Ludwig, 2012).
On the contrary, the disruption
of social bonds (e.g., caused by marital problems, confrontations, isolation, or neglect) can have a negative impact on mental and physical health (Steptoe, 1991; Curtis, 1995).