Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

By Matthew D. Lieberman. 2013

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How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An update (2015, background): “The importance of human connection has been discussed for decades, whether is it called attachment (17), belongingness (18), social support (19), or the lack of loneliness (20,21).”
Creating Birds of Similar Feathers: Leveraging Similarity to Improve Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement. (2015, background): “Humans foster social connections with others as a fundamental, intrinsic social motivation – we are hard-wired to be social animals (Lieberman, 2013; Ryan & Deci, 2000).”
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique (2018, background): “Indeed, researchers have concluded that human brains are “wired to connect” to others (Lieberman 2013).”
Social life and social death: Inclusion, ostracism, and rejection in groups (2017, background): “Humans are social animals—they depend upon forging and maintaining relationships with each other for their survival and psychological wellbeing (Lieberman, 2013).”
Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement (2018, background): “Researchers have concluded, among other things, that the human brain is literally “wired to connect” to others (Lieberman 2013).”
Valence and Value (2018, unknown): “…options that would otherwise appear incommensurable.2 Moreover, not only can grief and other forms of social suffering be blunted by using Tylenol, just as can physical pain (Lieberman & Eisenberger, 2009; Lieberman, 2013), but so, too, is pleasure blunted by the same drugs (Durso et al., 2015).”