interaction

Relationships can look loving on the surface while power or dependency quietly replaces real intimacy underneath.

New research links adolescent secrecy and peer competition to overlapping brain strain with serious mental health consequences.

Thoughtful technology bridges elder isolation by boosting social connection, cognitive health, and purpose when designed with psychological insight.

Social learning still drives human behaviour, but in the digital age imitation now spreads faster, broader, and with evolving consequences.

We are in the midst of a drought – a human-touch drought! Can the somewhat mysterious practice of ASMR be a solution to this problem?

Social interaction is necessary for humans to learn, sense, and understand each other.

Science confirms, yet again, that brutish behaviour can be an effective path to power. And not just in humans, but in chimpanzees, too. 

Spending time alone is common across the lifespan, and yet, we still do not fully understand when, why and for whom it confers risks versus benefits.

The brain’s defence system plays a greater role in helping behaviour than was previously thought.

New research in mice has identified neurons in the brain that influence competitive interactions between individuals.

Being kind seems to be a high-level skill; it requires the ability to see through the eyes of another, then to imagine what they need, emotionally.

Joint attention is the ability for two or more people to share attention about something in the world around us.

Being attractive does not just mean looking great, wearing branded clothes, and being stylish.

Gossip is often considered socially taboo and dismissed for its negative tone, but a Dartmouth study illustrates some of its merits.