Fundamental features of social environments determine rate of social affiliation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
All in all,
Bridging social psychology, neuroscience, and mental health, we show:
- background features of social environments shape our social decisions
- these decisions are linked to mental health profiles
- ancient foraging circuits might also track social environments
We all know friendship is about "clicking" with someone—shared interests, personality, chemistry.
But we discovered something surprising: our brains might also track basic features of our social environments, using similar circuits it uses to forage for rewards.
What are these basic features? 👇