Intense sociality has been a catalyst for human culture and civilization, and our social
relationships at a personal level play a pivotal role in our health and well-being. These …

Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and
happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of …

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has traditionally been examined as a prepurchase
behavior when it is sought (eWOM-seeking) and a postpurchase behavior when it is given …

It has been proposed that singing evolved to facilitate social cohesion. However, it remains
unclear whether bonding arises out of properties intrinsic to singing or whether any social …

It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread
amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst …

Communal eating, whether in feasts or everyday meals with family or friends, is a human
universal, yet it has attracted surprisingly little evolutionary attention. I use data from a UK …

Moving in synchrony leads to cooperative behavior and feelings of social closeness, and
dance (involving synchronization to others and music) may cause social bonding, possibly …

This review examines the hypothesis that oxytocin pathways—which include the
neuropeptide oxytocin, the related peptide vasopressin, and their receptors—are at the …

The size of human social networks significantly exceeds the network that can be maintained
by social grooming or touching in other primates. It has been proposed that endogenous …

The 'social complexity hypothesis' for communication posits that groups with complex social
systems require more complex communicative systems to regulate interactions and relations …