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Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships

... how people behave, think, and feel. This seems like a very novel idea – unfortunately it isn’t. One of the fathers of modern ... monkey (see figure left), even when the latter provided food. Although both radiated heat, it suggests that close, physical comfort is ... / more

Family Honour and the Purity of the Family’s Essence: A Relational Models Approach

... contamination of the shared essence. The Brazilian novel City of God from Paulo Lins tells the story of a nice and hardworking ... the in-group shares essential substances (i.e., blood, food, or drinks), they apply a communal relationship model (Fiske, 1992; Fiske, ... / more

Creativity is More Than a Trait: It’s a Relation

... country's need for a creative imperative. She explains that novel ideas and their implementation are the key to securing standards of ... of differing cultures when it comes to tasting innovative food. Social groups play an integral part in establishing  ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... at least for protection from predators and some degree of food sharing. However, it helps to draw out the implications of the ... 400 strangers to share the close quarters of the plane is novel component of human flight. What does alter—and not in any perceptible ... / more

Judging a book by its cover: Prior knowledge determines the effect of embodied cues.

... Lakens & Schubert, 2009), while others have found that food seems more expensive when it is sampled from a heavier dish ... He approached students around campus with a copy of the novel The Catcher in the Rye and asked them to rate how influential it was. ... / more

Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?

...  Typically, participants in this type of study complete a food history questionnaire and then are told that based on their answers, the ... behavioural output in the legal area. To conclude, a novel line of research has emerged showing that recollection and belief ... / more

Origins of Common Fears: A Review

... stimulus is a sensory object or event (e.g., scent of food) that evokes a response —some kind of change in the organism (e.g., ... more suited to describing the genesis of fears related to novel stimuli, ones that may appear unpredictable and uncontrollable, unusual, ... / more

A Primer on Porn and Relationships

... group who were instructed to abstain from their favourite food (21). Another notable experiment from the 1980s found that men who were ... refractory period, it is still possible to become aroused by novel, or highly-vivid, sexual stimuli, an example of which would be ... / more

FOMO: The fun everybody else has

... or tense about a simple photo. Although FOMO may seem a novel concept, the psychological processes behind it are not new. Scholars ... on social media are those about travel, events, and food [2]. These posts highlight what others have that we don 't. When we ... / more

Internet, dating, addiction: A match made in heaven

... life), and (6) relapse (trying to cut down but failing). Novel questionnaires like the Problematic Tinder Use Scale [11] were used to ... physical activity or doing something creative, like making food or music.  2.    When in contact with someone, swiftly ... / more