Women show enhanced attractiveness ratings and neural processing of male faces associated with male chemosensory signals

AbstractThere is growing evidence that humans use olfactory chemosensory signals for social communication, but their role in affective associative learning is largely unknown. To examine this, women implicitly learned face-odor associations by pairing different neutral male faces with either a male chemosignal presumably involved in human mating behavior (dissolved Δ4,16-androstadien-3-one, “AND”), a pleasant smell (dissolved vanillin) or the neutral solvent alone. After learning, women rated faces previously paired with AND or vanillin as more attractive than faces paired with solvent, even though they were unable to identify the contingency of face-odor pairings above chance level. On a neurophysiological level, both AND- and vanillin-associated faces evoked stronger magnetoencephalographic correlates of enhanced emotional attention than solvent-associated faces at early (<120 ms) and mid-latency (140-270 ms) processing stages. This study stresses the role of AND as a human chemosignal in implicit social communication and demonstrates its effectiveness in modulating emotional learning.

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Mate preferences toward agency and communion

Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science ◽

10.5178/lebs.2015.32 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Marcin Moroń

Keyword(s):

Mating Behavior ◽

Social Perception ◽

Mate Preferences ◽

Direct Test ◽

Short Term ◽

Potential Partner ◽

Agency And Communion ◽

Human Mating

Agency and communion constitute two fundamental dimensions of social perception. Universal dimensions of mate preferences represent both agentic and communal content, but a direct test of mate preferences toward agency and communion is lacking. The present study examined preferences toward agentic and communal traits in mate preferences among 206 heterosexual individuals (112 females), analysing the role of the target's sex and actor's sexual strategy. Results showed that women demonstrated higher expectations toward agentic and communal traits in a potential partner than men. Preference for agency in short-term relationships did not differ from preferences toward agency and communion in long-term relationships, but preferences toward communion of partner in short-term relationships was significantly lower. These results were discussed in light of the signaling role of agency and communion in human mating behavior.

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The Relationship between social skills and percived smartphone usage

10.31234/osf.io/cxug4 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Rageshawari Munderia ◽

Rajbala Singh

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Social Communication ◽

Regression Method ◽

Emotional Control ◽

Smartphone Addiction ◽

Adult Participants ◽

Multiple Regression Method ◽

The Relationship

Social skills play an instrumental role in individuals’ life. It helps individuals to communicate and maintain social relationships. Presently, the smartphone has completely changed the mode of social communication, and social skills may play a crucial role in this regard. Thus, the aim of the present study is to investigate the association between social skills and perceived smartphone usage (both positive and negative usage). The perceived negative usage of the smartphone has been assessed in terms of smartphone addiction. Sample of the present study comprised of (n=509) adult participants. Pearson’s product moment correlation (r) and multiple regression method was employed to assess the relationship between the proposed variables. Findings of the study demonstrated that social skills are significantly related with both perceived positive usage of smartphone and smartphone addiction. Social expressivity and emotional control emerged as significant predictors for both positive usage of smartphone and smartphone addiction. The findings of the study may have important implications for bringing awareness among the individuals regarding the role of social skills for effective usage of smartphone as well as for future researches in this direction. Keywords: social skill, perceived positive smartphone usage, smartphone addiction, emotion expressivity, emotional control

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New Democracy in Digital Era through Social Media and News Online

Humaniora ◽

10.21512/humaniora.v11i1.6182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Abitassha Az Zahra ◽

Eko Priyo Purnomo ◽

Aulia Nur Kasiwi

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

Communication Networks ◽

Social Communication ◽

Development Policy ◽

Online News ◽

Digital Era ◽

The Social ◽

New Democracy

The research aimed to explain the pattern of social communication on the issue of rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy. It used data on Twitter accounts involved in the rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy. In analyzing existing data, qualitative methods and social analysis networks were used. To see social networks in the rejection of the PLTU Batang development policy, the research used the NodeXL application to find out the patterns of social communication networks in #TolakPLTUBatang. From the results, it can be seen that in the dissemination of social networking information, the @praditya_wibby account is the most central account in the social network and has a strong influence on the social network. The @praditya_wibby account has a role in moving the community through Twitter to make a critical social movement. This means that in the current digital era, democracy enters a new form through the movement of public opinion delivery through social media. Besides, by encouraging the role of online news, the distribution of information becomes faster to form new perceptions of an issue. This is evident from the correlation network where the @praditya_wibby account has correlations with several compass online media accounts, tirto.id, okezonenews, vice, antaranews, BBCIndonesia, and CNN Indonesia.

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