Quotes About Social

DB: You mean the Second Viennese School as refugees' music? EWS: Yes. Exiles' music—not only from the social world but also from the tonal world, if the tonal world by the time they inherit it is the accepted world, the world of habit and custom and a certain kind of solidity.

Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

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The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman, a masterly observer of social interaction, called an "away," a gesture that tells another person "I'm not interested" in what's going on here and now.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power and the people we pay most and least attention to.4

Teamwork, open lines of communication, cooperation, listening, and speaking one's mind—rudiments of social intelligence

Television, as the poet T. S. Eliot warned in 1963, when the then-new medium was spreading into homes, "permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

You can't separate the cause of an emotion from the world of relationships—our social interactions are what drive our emotions.

Primal empathy: Feeling with others; sensing nonverbal emotional signals. Attunement: Listening with full receptivity; attuning to a person. Empathic accuracy: Understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Social cognition: Knowing how the social world works. Social Facility

Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness

A forma como nos vemos na hierarquia social parece determinar o grau de atenção que damos: mais vigilantes quando nos sentimos subordinados, menos quando nos sentimos superiores. Em suma, quanto mais nos preocupamos com alguém, mais atenção lhe prestamos – e quanto mais atenção lhe prestamos, mais nos preocupamos. A atenção entrelaça-se com o amor.

Quanto mais tempo alguém ignora uma mensagem antes de por fim responder, maior o poder social relativo dessa pessoa. Se se cartografar estes tempos de reação no contexto de uma organização inteira, obter-se-á um gráfico extremamente preciso das verdadeiras posições sociais.

A capacidade que os poderosos têm de ignorar as pessoas inconvenientes (e as verdades inconvenientes) não lhes dando atenção tornou-se o centro das atenções dos psicólogos sociais, que têm encontrado relações entre o poder e as pessoas a quem damos mais e menos atenção.

ilustran el modo en que, adueñándose de nuestra atención, la tecnología entorpece nuestras relaciones.

It takes a socially intelligent family to help build what developmental psychologists call a "positive affective core"—in other words, a happy child.4

Isolation itself, a 1987 report in Science concluded, is as significant to mortality rates as smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and lack of physical exercise. Indeed, smoking increases mortality risk by a factor of just 1.6, while social isolation does so by a factor of 2.0, making it a greater health risk.

Antisocial teenage girls don't get violent, they get pregnant.

Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.

The most important thing had always been what other people thought - appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it.

emergent relatedness assumes that the infant from the moment of birth is deeply social in the sense of being designed to engage in and find uniquely salient interactions with other humans.

The different Tantric schools, however, completely reject all formalism, dogmatism, puritanism, eviction of women, and existence of castes. They place the spiritual and mystical path in the social context by abolishing all differences between people.