# From close bonds to groups and cultural expectations

Begin with defined relationships, add physiological and field perspectives, then examine groups, culturally valued feelings and policy aims. The path’s recurring task is to make each change of scale explicit.

1. [CARTA: Love, Loss, and Luminance](https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/love-loss-and-luminance)
   Begin with pair bonds and loss, a more specific target than social behaviour in general.
   Task: Write an operational definition of one relationship outcome. Identify how the definition would need checking when the species changes.

2. [CARTA: The Healing Power of Love: The Oxytocin Hypothesis](https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/healing-power-love-oxytocin-hypothesis-0)
   Add Carter’s qualified oxytocin hypothesis as a mechanistic proposal.
   Task: Draw one proposed connection between a physiological measure and your defined outcome. Add a reverse-direction explanation and a potential contextual influence.

3. [Love, monogamy, and fatherhood in Latin American monkeys](https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/love-monogamy-and-fatherhood-latin-american-monkeys)
   Introduce field observations and rival accounts of bonding and care.
   Task: Choose a comparison described in the abstract and list what long-term field observation could reveal that a single laboratory session could not; do not assume it removes every confound.

4. [The biology of fatherhood in humans: Evolutionary origins and cross-cultural perspectives](https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/biology-fatherhood-humans-evolutionary-origins-and-cross-cultural-perspectives)
   Move to human fatherhood with ecology, culture and family roles explicitly included.
   Task: Write the same research question for two hypothetical family contexts. Identify a measurement whose interpretation might change between them.

5. [SWC Lecture 2023 - Professor Stephen Reicher](https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/watch-our-annual-lectures)
   Change scale from close relationships to shared identities and collective action.
   Task: Propose distinct predictions for a shared-identity explanation and an individual-incentive explanation of one fictional cooperative task.

6. [The biology of hatred: Why love turns to hatred and what we can do about it](https://carta.anthropogeny.org/events/sessions/biology-hatred-why-love-turns-hatred-and-what-we-can-do-about-it)
   Examine an attributed connection between attachment and intergroup processes.
   Task: Make an evidence request list for the intervention discussed: participants, comparison, outcome, follow-up and rival explanation. Leave effectiveness undecided until those materials are inspected.

7. [How Are Emotions Culturally Shaped?](https://culture-emotion-lab.stanford.edu/press/media-archive)
   Add a cultural-emotion perspective, using the inspected Tsai reading and laboratory framework alongside the archive-linked interview.
   Task: Write separate questions about actual and desired feeling in one fictional setting. Add a within-group variation caution before proposing any cross-cultural comparison.

8. [SWC Lecture 2022 - Professor Emily Murphy](https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/content/watch-our-annual-lectures)
   Finish by recognising a transition from explaining social life to choosing collective objectives.
   Task: Write two paragraphs: one describing an empirical question from the path and one defending a proposed social aim. Underline the value judgement that evidence alone cannot select.

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