Every fall, college freshmen begin the familiar tradition of establishing friendships with classmates in their dormitories.
Social Sciences
Aug 30, 2017
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Facebook "friends" aren't always real friends - at least legally.
Internet
Aug 24, 2017
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Let's say you're planning your next party and agonizing over the guest list. To whom should you send invitations? What combination of friends and strangers is the right mix?
Mathematics
Aug 4, 2017
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Facebook recently announced that it now has over 2 billion monthly users. This makes its "population" larger than that of China, the US, Mexico and Japan combined. Its popularity, and with it the influence it has in society, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2017
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Popular cellphone app Snapchat has introduced a new feature called Snap Map that allows users to share their location with friends. Worry about security surfaced immediately.
Internet
Jun 28, 2017
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Amanda Hebert felt powerless as she watched a Facebook video of her 32-year-old friend taking her own life.
Internet
Jun 28, 2017
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Our nation is divided, says Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, perhaps more than any time since the Civil War. Klapow says partisan politics, the nonstop 24-hour news cycle ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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A study led by computer scientists at Indiana University has found that people with the most connections on social media are also happier. This may cause most social media users to not only regard themselves as less popular ...
Social Sciences
Jun 21, 2017
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The power of friendship gets stronger with age and may even be more important than family relationships, indicates new research by a Michigan State University scholar.
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2017
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Wounds heal - the cells in a body knit over a cut. When a neuron dies, the brain can rewire itself to make up for the loss. And now, new research suggests, something similar seems to happen within a human social network after ...
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2017
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