Archive for the ‘CyberPsychology’ Category
Social networks influence health behaviors
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or long ties, produces large-scale changes most quickly. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has reached a different conclusion: Individuals are more likely to acquire new health practices while living in networks with dense clusters of connections — that is, when in close contact with people they already know well.
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Adults use of texting increases, but still less than teens
Texting by adults has increased over the past 9 months from 65 percent of adults sending and receiving texts in September 2009 to 72 percent texting in May 2010. Still, adults do not send nearly the same number of texts per day as teens ages 12-17, who send and receive, on average, 5 times more texts per day than adult texters.
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Text messages reveal the emotional timeline of September 11, 2001
For a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers analyzed text messages sent on September 11, 2001 for emotional words. They found spiking anxiety and steadily increasing anger through that fateful day.
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Older adults embracing social media technology
While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools.
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Home Broadband Access 2010
After several consecutive years of modest but consistent growth, broadband adoption slowed dramatically in 2010. Two-thirds of American adults (66%) currently use a high-speed internet connection at home, a figure that is not statistically different from what The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found at a similar point in 2009, when 63% of Americans were broadband adopters.
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People More Willing to Lie Using Email than Using Pen and Paper
In a study that included three separate experiments, Charles E. Naquin, Terri R. Kurtzburg, and Liuba Y. Belkin found that people are more likely to lie when communicating via email than when communicating via a pen and paper.
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Millennials will make online sharing in networks a lifelong habit
In a survey about the future impact of the internet, a solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders said the Millennial generation will lead society into a new world of personal disclosure and information-sharing using new media. These experts said the communications patterns “digital natives” have already embraced through their use of social networking technology and other social technology tools will carry forward even as Millennials age, form families, and move up the economic ladder.
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Mobile Access 2010
Six in ten American adults are now wireless internet users, and mobile data applications have grown more popular over the last year. As of May 2010, 59% of all adult Americans go online wirelessly.
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Some Difference Between Men’s and Women’s Use of Social Networking Websites
A study published in Individual Differences Research in 2010 has found some differences between the reasons college-aged men and women provide for using Myspace and Facebook.
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The Future of Social Relations
While they acknowledge that use of the internet as a tool for communications can yield both positive and negative effects, a significant majority of technology experts and stakeholders participating in the fourth Future of the Internet survey say it improves social relations and will continue to do so through 2020.
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