Do you prefer to have a few close friends or a larger social circle that is less deep? Social psychologists say your preference reflect your personality but also individual circumstances - like socioeconomic conditions.
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A recent study shows that men are more attracted to their women friends than vice versa. Men even overestimate the attraction felt from their friends. Read on. 
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Having attractive friends will make you more popular on Facebook, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study that takes Charles Darwin into the domain of cyber networking. Articles about FACEBOOK: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=facebook
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Networks governing processes in nature and society are becoming increasingly amenable to modeling, forecast and control.
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Americans are lonelier than ever before, according to a growing body of research. All those "friends" we have on the giant social network may be part of the problem
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They have a reputation for being ruthless, solitary predators, but the opposite may be closer to the truth. Some sharks organize themselves into communities and subcommunities, forming long-term relationships with other sharks.
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The area of the brain used to mentalise what others are thinking is much larger in people with a lot of friends, say Oxford researchers.
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Using data collected from Facebook, Harvard sociologists have addressed one of the great unsolved puzzles of social science — do we form friendships with people because we share similar interests, or do we share similar interests with people because they are our friends?
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Obesity spreads "contagiously" through social networks, claimed a highly publicized 2007 study, and since then, some researchers have been working to use social networks to reverse the nation's obesity epidemic.
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High-quality friendships in kindergarten may mean that boys will have fewer behavior problems and better social skills in first and third grades, said Nancy McElwain, a University of Illinois associate professor of human development and co-author...
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Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives.
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Children with friends who are more physically active tend to become more active themselves, new research finds.
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By analyzing 2 billion anonymous telephone calls and 500,000 text messages, researchers have reached a better understanding of who men and women choose as their best and second-best friends. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Do you and your partner have “couple friends”--other couples that you socialize with as a couple? Have you thought about their role in your marriage? University of Maryland professor Geoffrey Greif has. He and co-author Kathleen Holtz Deal conclude in Two Plus Two: Couples and their Couple Friendships that these friendships are surprisingly important to marital wellbeing. Articles about MARRIAGE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=marriage
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Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain -- known as the orbital prefrontal cortex -- that is found just above the eyes.
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"People with low self-esteem seem to behave counterproductively, bombarding their friends with negative tidbits about their lives and making themselves less likeable," according to a new study to be published in the journal Psychological Science.
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Sadilek and colleagues turn their target's social network into a predictive model called a dynamic Bayesian network. At each point in time, the nodes in the target person's network consist of their friends' locations, day of the week and the time, and information from these nodes determines the target's most likely location. Sadilek can also feed in any existing information about the person's whereabouts to help improve the model's accuracy.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes in science, the obvious must be studied to prove that the things that everyone thinks they know to be true, really are. Such is the case with Facebook.
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In the United States, friends often share intimate details of their lives and problems. However, such self-disclosure is much less common in Japan.
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Girls may be sugar and spice, but 'everything nice' takes a back seat when friends let them down.
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