Together the social and emotional ‘jobs’ of adolescence – developing intimate friendships and achieving autonomy – make teens uniquely resistant to calls for social distancing.
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The routine of life has been disrupted for most people as they stay at home to slow down the further spread of the coronavirus. A scholar who studies boredom offers some helpful tips.
As people social distance, a new social life and community can be found online.
Giants like Disney and NBCUniversal have been locked in the horns of a business problem known as the innovator’s dilemma.
Since ‘Friends’ premiered 25 years ago, both the television industry and the sitcom genre have undergone huge transformations.
Friends started airing 25 years ago this week. You might think of it as just a nostalgic sitcom: but it actually has a lot to teach us about how to be a good manager.
We know being nice is good for friendships. But we wanted to find out why some antisocial people are socially successful. So we looked at whether rebels had more friends in high school than nice kids.
Navigating friendships as a teen can be hard. Parents can help by modelling good behaviour and making sure their teen feels they can talk to them about their friendships.
Encouraging good social skill development benefits your young child throughout their life.
The ‘like’ button does far more than just express how much a person likes a particular picture or post. It could be used to make social comparisons.
More than 800 students told researchers what they value most in their friends.
Almost every online deception, fraud and scam – even propaganda and misinformation campaigns – begins with a fake social media profile. How do fakers get real people to agree to be friends?
Psychology researchers found that daily acts of kindness were linked to increases in positive mood – especially for teens who felt depressed.
Does the International Baccalaureate make for a better rounded education for students?
Friendship requires that we be open to our friends’ ways of seeing things, even when they differ from our own. Is being a good person necessary for a good friendship? Who is a good person?
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.
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Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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University at Buffalo
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer, School of Education (Qld), Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Psychology, Australian Catholic 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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Associate Professor of Geography, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Social Interaction, Loughborough University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Lecturer in Education, University of Bath
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Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
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Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Professor, Urban Studies and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
