Facebook users no longer see the site as a confidant. They’re struggling with how to deal with a messy codependence – and whether to just break up and move on with healthier friends.
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Social psychologists investigated why Facebook users post profile pics of themselves with a romantic partner and how those online displays are interpreted by others.
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Facebook users no longer see the site as a confidant. They’re struggling with how to deal with a messy codependence – and whether to just break up and move on with healthier friends.
Data scientists mapped the online behavior of Facebook users in Brazil, the US and Argentina. The result is a startling visual portrayal of just how deeply polarized these nations have become.
Social media provide shortcuts to things we yearn for, like connection and validation. Media effects scholars explain the psychological benefits we get from Facebook that make it so hard to quit.
Online social networking technologies have been linked with increased risky sexual behaviour – and Swaziland is no different.
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Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, Kyoto University
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James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects, Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, & Director, Center for Socially Responsible AI, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
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Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Ph.D. Student in Mass Communications, Penn State
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Professor of Public Policy, Universidade de São Paulo
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Professor of Information Systems, Universidade de São Paulo
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Adjunct Lecturer, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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Ph.D. Student in Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
