What is the Dunbar Number?
150 people with whom you can maintain stable social relationships.
500 people on your friends' list.
What are weak ties?
Relationships that don’t require everyone to know everyone else in the group, and which are not based on physical proximity
Relationships that are meaningful, and require you to know how they interact within the group.
The premotor cortex makes plans to move.
Mirror neurons are a subset of neurons that fire both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.
By using stories in your design, you can trigger mirror neurons which prompt people to take action?
is any activity occurring at the same time.
How can synchronous behavior affect the way people work together?
more cooperative in the completion of set tasks.
more willing to make sacrifices that benefited the group
the participants didn’t have to feel good about the group or the group activity in order to work together
What are the rules for social interaction?
Eye contact
Smile
Respond back in context
Greet them with a friendly hug
Can the rules for social interaction apply to online interactions?
is where people can and will become as they distance themselves from the bad of their actions.
What happened the more the brain was synced up?
The listener understood the ideas and message from the speaker.
The parts of the brain that hold prediction and anticipation were active.
The more active they were, the more successful the communication.
The parts of the brain that control social interaction were also synced.
This included the parts in processing social information crucial for successful communication, like the capacity to discern the beliefs, desires, and goals of others.
is the part of the brain that perceives value and regulates . Krienen found that when people answered questions about friends, whether or not they felt they were to their friends, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) was .
What did Robert Provine conclude with laughter?
It causes you to loose breath.
It makes your side hurt.
That laughter is an instinctual (not learned) behavior that creates social bonding.
Laughter is . Laughter is . Laughter is for . Laughter is .
The Duchenne Smile is a smile that contracts the zygomatic major muscles (the muscles raise the corners of the mouth) along with the orbicularis oculi muscles (the muscles raise the cheeks and make the eyes crinkle).
