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1 week ago

How to Reconnect Your Family in a Digital World

Face-to-face, reciprocal family interactions shape infants' neurobiological development, attachment, social cognition, and emotional growth through repeated multisensory engagement and mutual imitation.
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1 month ago

How Power Creates an Empathy Blind Spot

Have you ever noticed someone in power who seems rather indifferent to the opinions of others? Perhaps you've witnessed a leader who doesn't seem tuned in to the experiences of the people they lead. It's not just your imagination, and it may not be that the person was always like that. Instead, it appears that having power actually impairs a person's ability to empathize. If that isn't concerning enough, people are unaware of this power-induced tendency in themselves, thus falling victim to a blind spot.
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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Mirror Neurons and Eating: Friend or Foe?

Mirror neurons drive unconscious imitation, learning, and empathy and can trigger eating urges when observing others, which food marketing may exploit.
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fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Why Family Meals Matter

Face-to-face family interactions, especially shared meals, strengthen empathy and social development via mirror-neuron activation in frontal/parietal lobes and the insula.
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