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How to Find Effects of Stimulus Processing on Event Related Brain Potentials of Close Others when Hyperscanning Partners
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2018
This protocol describes key steps involved in assessing the sensitivity of the brain of one person to the stimulus processing of a close other by selecting pairs of partners, recording their electroencephalogram (EEG) simultaneously and computing their event-related brain potentials (ERPs).
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Close Relationships and Culture
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2025
Culture shapes how people approach attraction, choose partners, and build long-term relationships. While some preferences in mate selection appear consistent across cultures, such as men valuing physical attractiveness and women emphasizing financial resources, cultural contexts influence how these preferences are expressed and prioritized. Marriage extends beyond romantic ideals in many societies and is deeply embedded in social, economic, and religious frameworks.The Role of Culture in Mate...
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Friendships and Close Friendships
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2025
Friendship formation is a dynamic process shaped by psychological, cultural, and social factors. Friendships play a crucial role in emotional well-being, social development, and personal identity from childhood to adulthood.Childhood and Early FriendshipsFriendships in childhood often arise due to shared environments, such as school or neighborhood interactions. At this stage, proximity and common interests serve as the primary basis for connection. As children grow, their friendships evolve...
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System for Focal, Closed-System Central Nervous System Injury
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2024
This protocol describes a custom overpressure air system designed to induce closed-system central nervous system (CNS) injuries in mice, including ocular, brain, and spinal cord traumas. The goal of this protocol is to provide a framework for researchers to easily adapt and expand the system for their unique CNS trauma studies.
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Open and closed-loop control systems
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2024
Control systems are foundational elements in automation and engineering. They are broadly categorized into open-loop and closed-loop systems. These classifications hinge on the presence or absence of feedback mechanisms, significantly influencing the system's performance, complexity, and application. An open-loop control system operates without feedback from the output. It consists of two primary elements: the controller and the controlled process. The controller receives an input signal and...
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Perceived responsiveness can turn communication into evidence that another person understands and cares. When someone responds with understanding, the interaction may reinforce trust and belonging rather than remaining a simple exchange of information. This makes responsiveness a useful psychological process for explaining why communication is associated with stronger relationship quality and, in some contexts, better well-being.
Sharing personal information can support closeness by giving each person access to experiences, thoughts, or feelings that are not part of ordinary interaction. In the framework described here, this process works alongside understanding, time together, and perceived mutual care. Its relevance is relational: disclosure can contribute to familiarity and psychological proximity when connection is experienced as mutual.
Time together can build familiarity and psychological proximity. In the described framework, it works alongside personal information, understanding, and perceived mutual care rather than standing alone. Considering these factors together helps explain how social contact may support trust, belonging, and stronger relationship quality over time.
Studying this experience gives psychologists a way to connect everyday social interaction with broader topics such as attachment, friendship, romantic relationships, social support, and group connection. It can show how processes including personal disclosure, understanding, shared time, and perceived care relate to trust, belonging, well-being, and relationship quality.
The concept can be considered in friendships, romantic relationships, social support, attachment, and groups. Comparing these contexts helps researchers ask whether communication, perceived responsiveness, and mutual care have relevance across forms of connection, while keeping attention on the particular relationship or group in which closeness is experienced.
Researchers can use it to consider trust, belonging, well-being, and relationship quality as connected aspects of social experience. Examining these outcomes helps clarify how communication, perceived responsiveness, and mutual care relate to people's experiences in relationships and groups, rather than treating closeness as an isolated feeling.