Communicating with female friends decreases stress hormone levels for women across the lifespan
Directing a meeting, dialing up an old acquaintance, dictating the perfect tuna salad sandwich across a drive-through window. For business and for pleasure, human beings are in constant communication.
Our proclivity for socialization is lifelong, equally prominent in the lives of adolescents and adults. A recent study determined key differences in the ways that various age groups communicate, as well as one conversational component that stands the test of time: friendship. Specifically, bonds between individuals who identify as female.
Led by former Beckman Institute postdoctoral researchers Michelle Rodrigues and Si On Yoon, an interdisciplinary team evaluated how interlocutors age and familiarity with one another impacts a conversation, reviewing the interaction s overall effectiveness and stress responses generated as a result.
Keeping your friends close, makes cortisol levels low for life: Study ANI | Updated: Jul 01, 2021 08:15 IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign determined that communicating with female friends decreases stress hormone levels for women across the lifespan.
The study, titled What are friends for? The impact of friendship on communicative efficiency and cortisol response during collaborative problem solving among younger and older women , was published in the Journal of Women and Aging.
Directing a meeting, dialling up an old acquaintance, dictating the perfect tuna salad sandwich across a drive-through window. For business and for pleasure, human beings are in constant communication.
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