A study of individuals seeking treatment for borderline personality disorder found that the gap between their own perceived social preferences and their expectations about the social preferences of ...

An expectation is a strong belief that something will (or won’t) happen or be true. It is a standard for how we would like people to behave and how we want the world to be. We hold expectations both ...

This post was co-authored by David Szwedo and Katie Shiflett, a former undergraduate student at James Madison University. Source: Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash Think back to a time when you didn’t ...

Loneliness is associated with negative social behaviors, impairing social relationships. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the relationship between ...