The Connect reading list

Readings on belonging, relationships and shared experience.

• Burkett, J. P., & Young, L. J. (n.d.). The behavioral, anatomical and pharmacological parallels between social attachment, love and addiction.
• Carter, C. S., & Kingsbury, M. A. (2022). Oxytocin and oxygen: The evolution of a solution to the “stress of life.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20210054. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0054.
• Carter, C. S., & Perkeybile, A. M. (n.d.). The monogamy paradox: What do love and sex have to do with it?
• Dölen, G., Darvishzadeh, A., Huang, K. W., & Malenka, R. C. (n.d.). Social reward requires coordinated activity of accumbens oxytocin and 5-HT.
• Gettler, L. T., Sarma, M. S., Lew-Levy, S., Bond, A., Trumble, B. C., & Boyette, A. H. (2019). Mothers’ and fathers’ joint profiles for testosterone and oxytocin in a small-scale fishing-farming community: Variation based on marital conflict and paternal contributions. Brain and Behavior, 9, e01367. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1367.
• Goldstein, T. R., & Bloom, P. (n.d.). The mind on stage: Why cognitive scientists should study acting. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
• Goldstein, T. R., & Winner, E. (2012). Enhancing empathy and theory of mind. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2011.573514.
• Gu, R., Huang, W., Camilleri, J., Xu, P., Wei, P., Eickhoff, S. B., & Feng, C. (n.d.). Love is analogous to money in human brain: Coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipation.
• Hirsch, J. L., & Clark, M. S. (2019). Multiple paths to belonging that we should study together. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(2), 238–255. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618803629.
• Holt-Lunstad, J. (2018). Why social relationships are important for physical health: A systems approach to understanding and modifying risk and protection. Annual Review of Psychology, 69, 437–458. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011902.
• Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., & Layton, J. B. (2010). Social relationships and mortality risk: A meta-analytic review. PLoS Medicine, 7(7), e1000316.
• Kemp, A. H., Arias, J. A., & Fisher, Z. (2017). Social ties, health and wellbeing: A literature review and model. In Neuroscience and social science: The missing link (pp. 397–427).
• Mandryk, R. L., Frommel, J., Armstrong, A., & Johnson, D. (2020). How passion for playing World of Warcraft predicts in-game social capital, loneliness, and wellbeing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2165. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02165.
• Paletta, P., Bass, N., Kavaliers, M., & Choleris, E. (2022). The role of oxytocin in shaping complex social behaviours: Possible interactions with other neuromodulators. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20210058. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0058.
• Bowling, D. L., Gahr, J., Graf Ancochea, P., Hoeschele, M., Canoine, V., Fusani, L., & Fitch, W. T. (n.d.). Endogenous oxytocin, cortisol, and testosterone in response to group singing.
• Barlett, C. P., & Rodeheffer, C. (2009). Effects of realism on extended violent and nonviolent video game play on aggressive thoughts, feelings, and physiological arousal. Aggressive Behavior, 35, 213–224.
• Arbib, M. A. (2005). From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(2), 105–124.
• Corballis, M. C. (2009). The evolution of language. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1156, 19–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04423.x.
• Fuchshuber, J., Andres, D., Prandstätter, T., Roithmeier, L., Schmautz, B., Schwerdtfeger, A., & Unterrainer, H.-F. (n.d.). Influence of anxious attachment on the relationship between primary emotions and substance-related addictive behaviors.
• Gentilucci, M., & Dalla Volta, R. (2008). Spoken language and arm gestures are controlled by the same motor control system. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(6), 944–957. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701625683.
• Gentilucci, M., Dalla Volta, R., & Gianelli, C. (2008). When the hands speak. Journal of Physiology–Paris, 102(1–3), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.002.
• Introducing belonging: A space for connection, identity, and inclusion. (n.d.).
• Oxytocin and addiction: Potential glutamatergic mechanisms. (n.d.).
• Skoyles, J. R. (2006). Human balance, the evolution of bipedalism and dysequilibrium syndrome. Medical Hypotheses, 66(6), 1060–1068.
• Tan, U. (2014). Two families with quadrupedalism, mental retardation, no speech, and infantile hypotonia (Uner Tan syndrome type II): A novel theory for the evolutionary emergence of human bipedalism. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, 84. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00084.
• The interaction of oxytocin and social support, loneliness, and cortisol level in major depression. (2019). Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 17(4), 487–494. https://doi.org/10.9758/cpn.2019.17.4.487.