Eiluned Pearce
Biographic Data
| ID | 627576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eiluned Pearce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eiluned |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearce |
| SIGNATURE | PEARCE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4347-317X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sex differences in close friendships and social style
Friendships play a central role in human sociality, and are a major influence, both directly and indirectly, on our fitness. The two most important forms of friendship are the support clique and the best friend. Although the basis on which we choose friends and romantic partners have been studied in considerable detail, we know a great deal less about how individuals' own psychological traits affect whom they form relationships with. Here, we use…
Loneliness and the onset of new mental health problems in the general population
The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: A 12-year population-based cohort study
The experience of loneliness among young people with depression: A qualitative meta-synthesis of the literature
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively Different Kinds of Human
Singing and social bonding: Changes in connectivity and pain threshold as a function of group size
Participants’ perspectives on the social bonding and well-being effects of creative arts adult education classes
Background: Evidence suggests that adult education classes have a positive impact on well-being, but whether this is true for all course activities is unknown.Methods: A UK adult education charity ran four singing classes, two craft classes and a creative writing class for the purpose of this study. Written responses to open questions about health, well-being and social lives were collected from participants at the end of the 7-month courses.Resu…
Is Group Singing Special? Health, Well‐Being and Social Bonds in Community‐Based Adult Education Classes
Evidence demonstrates that group singing improves health and well-being, but the precise mechanisms remain unknown. Given that cohesive social networks also positively influence health, we focus on the social aspects of singing, exploring whether improvements in health and well-being are mediated by stronger social bonds, both to the group as a whole (collective-bonding) and to individual classmates (relational-bonding). To do so, seven newly-for…
Response to: Traynor et al. “assessing eye orbits as predictors of neandertal group size”
We are somewhat concerned by the number of errors and misconceptions in Traynor et al.’s (2015) comment on our paper (Pearce et al. 2013) in which we argue that Neanderthal brain structure must have been sufficiently different to that of anatomically modern humans to have had significant consequences for the sizes of their communities and key social cognitive abilities
The God Allusion: Individual Variation in Agency Detection, Mentalizing and Schizotypy and Their Association with Religious Beliefs and Behaviors
The ice-breaker effect: Singing mediates fast social bonding
It has been proposed that singing evolved to facilitate social cohesion. However, it remains unclear whether bonding arises out of properties intrinsic to singing or whether any social engagement can have a similar effect. Furthermore, previous research has used one-off singing sessions without exploring the emergence of social bonding over time. In this semi-naturalistic study, we followed newly formed singing and non-singing (crafts or creative…
The Costs of Being a High-latitude Hominin
This chapter examines the challenges that hominins occupying higher latitudes have had to deal with. More specifically, it analyses how hominins were able to maintain social networks over the larger geographic areas associated with decreasing population densities at higher latitudes, along with the mechanisms by which the largest encompassing groups can be maintained. The chapter first considers what the term ‘group’ means before discussing the a…
Using obsidian transfer distances to explore social network maintenance in late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers
Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers
Is orbital volume associated with eyeball and visual cortex volume in humans
In humans the components of the visual system scale from orbit to eye to visual cortex volume independently of overall brain size. These findings indicate that orbit volume can index eye and visual cortex volume in humans, suggesting that larger high latitude orbits do translate into larger visual cortices
Fission-fusion and the evolution of hominin social systems
Fission-fusion and the evolution of hominin social systems
Is Group Singing Special? Health, Well‐Being and Social Bonds in Community‐Based Adult Education Classes
Evidence demonstrates that group singing improves health and well-being, but the precise mechanisms remain unknown. Given that cohesive social networks also positively influence health, we focus on the social aspects of singing, exploring whether improvements in health and well-being are mediated by stronger social bonds, both to the group as a whole (collective-bonding) and to individual classmates (relational-bonding). To do so, seven newly-for…
Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers
Participants’ perspectives on the social bonding and well-being effects of creative arts adult education classes
Background: Evidence suggests that adult education classes have a positive impact on well-being, but whether this is true for all course activities is unknown.Methods: A UK adult education charity ran four singing classes, two craft classes and a creative writing class for the purpose of this study. Written responses to open questions about health, well-being and social lives were collected from participants at the end of the 7-month courses.Resu…
The God Allusion: Individual Variation in Agency Detection, Mentalizing and Schizotypy and Their Association with Religious Beliefs and Behaviors
Fission-fusion and the evolution of hominin social systems
Is orbital volume associated with eyeball and visual cortex volume in humans
In humans the components of the visual system scale from orbit to eye to visual cortex volume independently of overall brain size. These findings indicate that orbit volume can index eye and visual cortex volume in humans, suggesting that larger high latitude orbits do translate into larger visual cortices
The Costs of Being a High-latitude Hominin
This chapter examines the challenges that hominins occupying higher latitudes have had to deal with. More specifically, it analyses how hominins were able to maintain social networks over the larger geographic areas associated with decreasing population densities at higher latitudes, along with the mechanisms by which the largest encompassing groups can be maintained. The chapter first considers what the term ‘group’ means before discussing the a…
Using obsidian transfer distances to explore social network maintenance in late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers
Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers
The ice-breaker effect: Singing mediates fast social bonding
It has been proposed that singing evolved to facilitate social cohesion. However, it remains unclear whether bonding arises out of properties intrinsic to singing or whether any social engagement can have a similar effect. Furthermore, previous research has used one-off singing sessions without exploring the emergence of social bonding over time. In this semi-naturalistic study, we followed newly formed singing and non-singing (crafts or creative…
Singing and social bonding: Changes in connectivity and pain threshold as a function of group size
Participants’ perspectives on the social bonding and well-being effects of creative arts adult education classes
Background: Evidence suggests that adult education classes have a positive impact on well-being, but whether this is true for all course activities is unknown.Methods: A UK adult education charity ran four singing classes, two craft classes and a creative writing class for the purpose of this study. Written responses to open questions about health, well-being and social lives were collected from participants at the end of the 7-month courses.Resu…
Is Group Singing Special? Health, Well‐Being and Social Bonds in Community‐Based Adult Education Classes
Evidence demonstrates that group singing improves health and well-being, but the precise mechanisms remain unknown. Given that cohesive social networks also positively influence health, we focus on the social aspects of singing, exploring whether improvements in health and well-being are mediated by stronger social bonds, both to the group as a whole (collective-bonding) and to individual classmates (relational-bonding). To do so, seven newly-for…
Response to: Traynor et al. “assessing eye orbits as predictors of neandertal group size”
We are somewhat concerned by the number of errors and misconceptions in Traynor et al.’s (2015) comment on our paper (Pearce et al. 2013) in which we argue that Neanderthal brain structure must have been sufficiently different to that of anatomically modern humans to have had significant consequences for the sizes of their communities and key social cognitive abilities
The God Allusion: Individual Variation in Agency Detection, Mentalizing and Schizotypy and Their Association with Religious Beliefs and Behaviors
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively Different Kinds of Human
The experience of loneliness among young people with depression: A qualitative meta-synthesis of the literature
The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: A 12-year population-based cohort study
Loneliness and the onset of new mental health problems in the general population
Sex differences in close friendships and social style
Friendships play a central role in human sociality, and are a major influence, both directly and indirectly, on our fitness. The two most important forms of friendship are the support clique and the best friend. Although the basis on which we choose friends and romantic partners have been studied in considerable detail, we know a great deal less about how individuals' own psychological traits affect whom they form relationships with. Here, we use…
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Population (4 works)