An interview with Mark Moffett—who studies, among other things, the social behavior of ants, discusses how human beings adapted to interact and live with strangers in large societies.
Rejection is always upsetting, but being devalued and rejected because one has a stigmatized identity is particularly distressing and undermines trust.
Erin Heerey is an Associate Professor at Western University. Her research focuses on the biological underpinnings of social behaviour, social difficulties in clinical populations, and how people use and understand social cues during face-to-face interactions.
We know that masks can reduce COVID-19 transmission, but how are they affecting our ability to communicate with each other? A psychologist who studies how well people understand each other offers some speculations.