Hardwired Stickman
Why humans and animals behave the way they do.
HARDWIRED STICKMAN
Research-backed explainers about human behaviour.
Human Behaviour
In 2003, psychologist Naomi Eisenberger, with Matthew Lieberman and Kipling Williams, used fMRI and the Cyberball exclusion game to show that social rejection activates the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex — the same brain region tied to the distress of physical pain.
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Human Behaviour
A look at infant smiling development through the research of Peter Wolff, Robert Emde, Konrad Koenig, Robert Harmon, and John Bowlby's attachment theory. Newborns build spontaneous, sound-triggered, and social smiles on three separate timelines.
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