Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how ...
May 2, 2016
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A University of Illinois researcher has identified four distinct approaches that dating couples use to develop deeper commitment.
Feb 10, 2016
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An international team of researchers from Indiana University and Switzerland is using data mapping methods created to track the spread of information on social networks to trace its dissemination across a surprisingly different ...
Jun 17, 2015
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Social scientists have long known that, statistically speaking, our friends are probably more popular than we are. It's a simple matter of math: Because extraverted people tend to have more friends, they are disproportionately ...
Apr 6, 2015
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Where in your brain do you exist? Is your awareness of the world around you and of yourself as an individual the result of specific, focused changes in your brain, or does that awareness come from a broad network of neural ...
Mar 11, 2015
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If you want to lose pounds using an online weight management program, don't be a wallflower. A new Northwestern University study shows that online dieters with high social embeddedness—who logged in regularly, recorded ...
Jan 28, 2015
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Have doctors, therapy and pills had their day in helping to wean people off addiction?
Jan 28, 2015
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A study of social networks has yielded clues about how best to improve vaccination rates for influenza.
Jan 26, 2015
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New research from the Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) at UT Dallas offers a different approach for looking at the way the brain operates on a network level, and could eventually lead to new clinical diagnostic criteria for ...
Nov 3, 2014
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Nate Silver and Richard Feynman walk into a bar and bump into a biologist... While this may sound like the setup to some late-night nerd sketch, researchers have taken this premise and applied it to an increasingly cumbersome ...
Nov 2, 2014
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