{"id":204871,"date":"2025-01-29T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-large-social-circles-foster-trust"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:29:28","slug":"how-large-social-circles-foster-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-large-social-circles-foster-trust","title":{"rendered":"How Large Social Circles Foster Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-large-social-circles-foster-trust.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A new study challenges the belief that larger groups reduce cooperation, showing instead that flexible social connections enhance teamwork. Researchers found that in a prisoner\u2019s dilemma game, participants in bigger groups cooperated more frequently, despite memory limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Brain scans revealed that when memories of past interactions were unclear, participants relied on prosocial instincts to guide behavior. Key brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens, helped balance memory, reward, and decision-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new study challenges the belief that larger groups reduce cooperation, showing instead that flexible social connections enhance teamwork. Researchers found that in a prisoner\u2019s dilemma game, participants in bigger groups cooperated more frequently, despite memory limitations. Brain scans revealed that when memories of past interactions were unclear, participants relied on prosocial instincts to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}