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Relationship partners are valued by the brain region that also values other goods

When your friend spends a long period of time listening to your problems, how do you feel? You may come to feel closer to the friend than before or consider them a more dependable friend. Apart from such subjective feelings, evolutionary psychologists assume that what... click to read more

Yohsuke Ohtsubo | Professor at Department of Social Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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published on Aug 3, 2021

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