The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.
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One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.
When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
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