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Title: Patterns of Social Support and Trajectories of Household Recovery after Superstorm Sandy: Contrasting Influences of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
Award ID(s):
1638317
NSF-PAR ID:
10388879
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Natural Hazards Review
Volume:
23
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1527-6988
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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  1. Abstract

    Meaningfully connecting with others is critical to the well‐being of individuals. What phenomena contribute to and stem from social connection? In this paper, we integrate emerging work that uses neuroimaging and social network analysis with theories that explore the links between shared reality and social connection. We highlight recent work suggesting that the extent to which people have aligned mental processing and shared subjective construals to those around them—as shown by neural similarity—is associated with both objective and subjective social connection. On the other hand, idiosyncrasies are linked to difficulties with social connection. We conclude by suggesting how the links between shared understanding and social connection can be productively used as a framework to study psychosocial phenomena of interest.

     
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