{"id":799433,"date":"2026-10-11T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799433\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:32:08","slug":"feelgood-factor-of-human-interaction-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799433\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelgood factor of human interaction | Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re your report (\u2018Pull the plug\u2019: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms, 6 October<\/a>), the US neuroscientist Ben Rein has shown that there is a fundamental difference in our cognitive response according to the type of interaction we have. In-person meetings and conversations show a dramatic increase in serotonin, oxytocin and dopamine \u2013 \u201cfeelgood\u201d hormones \u2013 compared with online interactions. I have been encouraged to speak to\u00a0people at bus stops.
Judith Furner
Eastbourne, East Sussex<\/p>\n

Re easing winter fuel costs (Report, 6 October<\/a>), it would benefit everyone if the outrageous daily standing charges were reduced or on a sliding scale based on usage. I can\u2019t be the only person whose standing charges each month are half or more than the energy used.
Judith Pearson
Sheffield<\/p>\n

To your tautology anthology (Letters, 5 October<\/a>) should be added this sign at a farm shop in the Vale of Evesham: \u201cLarge drive-in car park.\u201d
Paul Gelling
Prenton, Merseyside<\/p>\n

Far worse than being called \u201cyoung lady\u201d (Letters, 7 October<\/a>) is the ubiquitous use of \u201cguys\u201d in the hospitality industry. Stop it.
Megan Parry
Wallingford, Oxfordshire<\/p>\n

At 91, I object to being addressed as \u201cyoung man\u201d, remembering that when I was actually a young man I was often called \u201cold man\u201d.
Beverley Charles Rowe
London<\/p>\n

Irony corner: air pollution impairs F1 motor racing in Singapore (Report, 6 October<\/a>).
Martin Datta
Lincoln<\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re your report (\u2018Pull the plug\u2019: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms, 6 October), the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}