A new study reveals that great apes frequently engage in physical affection, such as kissing, hugging, and cuddling, to maintain peace and manage social tensions within their groups. Researchers observed that these comforting behaviors often occur after stressful interactions or potential conflicts, serving to de-escalate tension and reassure group members. By prioritizing social bonding over aggression, great apes demonstrate complex conflict-resolution strategies that mirror human mechanisms for empathy and reconciliation.
- Great apes use physical gestures like kissing, cuddling, and grooming to reduce group tension and maintain social harmony.
- Affectionate behaviors frequently increase following stressful or aggressive incidents to reconcile individuals and comfort affected group members.
- These reassuring social interactions help lower stress levels and strengthen social bonds within primate communities.
- Researchers highlight that these conflict-management strategies offer key insights into the evolutionary origins of human empathy and cooperation.
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If only Trump's daddy had kissed and embraced him when he was a child, we might not be held hostage by a raging narcissist whose aim is to harm as many people as possible, including his supporters.
이게 뭐 대단한 발견이라고 당연한 사실을 가지고.
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Our behaviour can't be rooted in other primates because no other primates alive today are our ancestors. Just basic stuff…
It's not true that all chimpanzees (common chimpanzees) are aggressive. There are four different races (subspecies) with different behaviours.
👍 Also now we know where it comes from the expession " to go bananas " 🧠
Its nice, but its alittle bit rude. Might need to come with a warning that offensive content is about to show. Also just reached 2:23 . That part is the rudest thing I have ever heard
i do the same,indeed we are their descendents
"trust me".
"Stinky finger".
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Great. Imaging.
So Trump & Ayatola just need a kiss & cuddle?
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So what you are saying is, affectionate physical contact is comforting? Thank god for these studies. And here I was thinking spending billions of our GDP on weapons we will never fire was a poor use of taxes.
Meanwhile the UK 🇬🇧 is going down the toilet faster and faster.
Sorry is this new research?
Trump sir supreme leader president of the USA can teach us this study