ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2014
The neuroethology of friendship.
Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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52 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Experiences of friendship among autistic adults: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
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- Exploring Within-Gender Differences in Friendships Using an Online Social Network.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Neural Similarity and Synchrony among Friends.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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- Personality heterophily and friendship as drivers for successful cooperation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Brain Activities Show There Is Nothing Like a Real Friend in Contrast to Influencers and Other Celebrities.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Impact of prolonged chronic social isolation stress on behavior and multifractal complexity of metabolic rate inFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Affective lability and social functioning in severe mental disorders.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Friendship pervades the human social landscape. These bonds are so important that disrupting them leads to health problems, and difficulties forming or maintaining friendships attend neuropsychiatric disorders like autism and depression. Other animals also have friends, suggesting that friendship is not solely a human invention but is instead an evolved trait. A neuroethological approach applies behavioral, neurobiological, and molecular techniques to explain friendship with reference to its underlying mechanisms, development, evolutionary origins, and biological function. Recent studies implicate a shared suite of neural circuits and neuromodulatory pathways in the formation, maintenance, and manipulation of friendships across humans and other animals. Health consequences and reproductive advantages in mammals additionally suggest that friendship has adaptive benefits. We argue that understanding the neuroethology of friendship in humans and other animals brings us closer to knowing fully what it means to be human.
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