Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans by Suvilehto, J, Glerean, E, Dunbar, R, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…Across all tested cultures, the total bodily area where touching was allowed was linearly dependent (mean r^2 = 0.54) on the emotional bond with the toucher, but independent of when that person was last encountered. …”

Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans. by Suvilehto, J, Glerean, E, Dunbar, R, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…Across all tested cultures, the total bodily area where touching was allowed was linearly dependent (mean r^2=0.54) on the emotional bond with the toucher, but independent of when that person was last encountered. …”

Communication in social networks: Effects of kinship, network size, and emotional closeness by Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…The effect of emotional closeness on time to last contact was greater for kin than for friends. …”

Changes in male brain responses to emotional faces from adolescence to middle age by Deeley, Q, Daly, E, Azuma, R, Surguladze, S, Giampietro, V, Brammer, M, Hallahan, B, Dunbar, R, Phillips, M, Murphy, D

“…Facial emotion perception is fundamental to human social behaviour, and changes with age. …”

Emotional arousal when watching drama increases pain threshold and social bonding by Dunbar, R, Teasdale, B, Thompson, J, Budelmann, F, Duncan, S, van Emde Boas, E, Maguire, L

“…We show that, compared to subjects who watch an emotionally neutral film, subjects who watch an emotionally arousing film have increased pain thresholds and an increased sense of group bonding.…”

Changes in male brain responses to emotional faces from adolescence to middle age. by Deeley, Q, Daly, E, Azuma, R, Surguladze, S, Giampietro, V, Brammer, M, Hallahan, B, Dunbar, R, Phillips, M, Murphy, D

“…Facial emotion perception is fundamental to human social behaviour, and changes with age. …”

Extraverts Have Larger Social Network Layers But Do Not Feel Emotionally Closer to Individuals at Any Layer by Pollet, T, Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…However, it is unclear how extraversion affects the size of different layers of the network, and how extraversion relates to the emotional intensity of social relationships. We examined the relationships between extraversion, network size, and emotional closeness for 117 individuals. …”

Use of social network sites and instant messaging does not lead to increased offline social network size, or to emotionally closer relationships with offline network members by Pollet, T, Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…However, time spent using social media was not associated with larger offline networks, or feeling emotionally closer to offline network members. Further, those that used social media, as compared to non-users of social media, did not have larger offline networks, and were not emotionally closer to offline network members. …”

Use of social network sites and instant messaging does not lead to increased offline social network size, or to emotionally closer relationships with offline network members. by Pollet, T, Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…However, time spent using social media was not associated with larger offline networks, or feeling emotionally closer to offline network members. Further, those that used social media, as compared to non-users of social media, did not have larger offline networks, and were not emotionally closer to offline network members. …”

Higher-order mentalising and executive functioning by Launay, J, Pearce, E, Wlodarski, R, van Duijn, M, Carney, J, Dunbar, R

“…In Study 1a and 1b, examining emotion recognition and empathy, a relationship was identified between individual differences in the ability to mentalise and an emotion recognition task (the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task), but no correlation was found with the empathy quotient, a self-report scale of empathy. …”

Exploring the mechanisms that underlie the crossmodal correspondences between shapes and tastes by Salgado-Montejo, A

“…Three different studies (studies 3-7, Chapter 3) analysed whether simple dots and lines that resemble facial features (i.e., eyes and mouth) could be associated with an emotional valence and an emotion, as well as to a specific taste word (i.e., sweet, sour, or bitter). …”

The microbiome in psychology and cognitive neuroscience by Sarkar, A, Harty, S, Lehto, S, Moeller, A, Dinan, T, Dunbar, R, Cryan, J, Burnet, P

“…Here, we illustrate microbial associations with emotion, cognition, and social behavior. However, despite considerable enthusiasm and potential, technical and conceptual limitations including low statistical power and lack of mechanistic descriptions prevent a nuanced understanding of microbiome–brain–behavior relationships. …”

Individual differences in transportation into narrative drama by Thompson, J, Teasdale, B, Duncan, S, van Emde Boas, E, Budelmann, F, Maguire, L, Dunbar, R

“…Study 1 found that individual differences in self-reported transportation to a film explained variation in virtually all other dependent measures, such as identification with characters, emotion, and attribution of blame for the protagonist’s struggles. …”

The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour by Sarkar, A, Harty, S, Johnson, K, Moeller, A, Carmody, R, Lehto, S, Erdman, S, Dunbar, R, Burnet, PW

“…Following these discussions, we examine evidence of microbial associations with emotion and social behaviour in humans, focussing on psychobiotic studies, microbe–depression correlations, early human development, autism, and issues of statistical power, replication, and causality. …”

Going That Extra Mile: Individuals Travel Further to Maintain Face-to-Face Contact with Highly Related Kin than with Less Related Kin by Pollet, T, Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…For distantly related kin, the level of emotional closeness mediated this relationship--when emotional closeness was controlled for, there was no effect of genetic relatedness on travel time. …”

Altruism in social networks: Evidence for a 'kinship premium'. by Curry, O, Roberts, S, Dunbar, R

“…One possibility is that kinship contributes to some general measure of relationship quality (such as 'emotional closeness'), which in turn explains altruism. …”

Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching by Suvilehto, J, Nummenmaa, L, Harada, T, Dunbar, R, Hari, R, Turner, R, Sadato, N, Kitada, R

“…In both cultures, the strength of the emotional bond was linearly associated with permissible touch area. …”

Smiles when sharing by Mehu, M, Grammer, K, Dunbar, R

“…In particular, smiles involving an emotional component would be honest signals of altruistic dispositions because they are not easy to produce voluntarily. …”

Smiles when sharing by Mehu, M, Grammer, K, Dunbar, R

“…In particular, smiles involving an emotional component would be honest signals of altruistic dispositions because they are not easy to produce voluntarily. …”

Exploring variation in active network size: constraints and ego characteristics by Roberts, S, Dunbar, R, Pollet, T, Kuppens, T

“…There was a negative relationship between mean emotional closeness and network size, for both related and unrelated networks. …”