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A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
You’ll likely spot a hanukkiah, which has become a shortcut to identify Jewishness.
Friendships between these two very different primates likely outlasted your promise to be best buds forever with your school classmates.
Canada’s immigration system should accept our chosen families and unconventional forms of love, such as friends with deep bonds.
A series of experiments explored the seemingly radical idea that opening up to strangers can be deeply satisfying.
Friendship networks shrank during lockdowns. As we re-engage, how do we get our old friends back? And which do we want back?
Small-group learning activities can help students build social skills while enhancing academic achievement. This is particularly important for kids who face bullying or discrimination.
Many people are feeling the urge to quit Facebook. It’s not hard to do, technically speaking. It’s a good idea, however, to pause first and look back on your digital memories.
Maasai in Tanzania use their mobile phones all the time – usually to communicate with people they already know. But dialing errors can also breed friendships and business opportunities.
Friends has made audiences laugh by breaching what we expect to happen when people speak.
The social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have illustrated how important human connections are to health.
Resilience, humour, hardship and tragedy – a unique survey reveals how ordinary New Zealanders coped during one of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns.
Together the social and emotional ‘jobs’ of adolescence – developing intimate friendships and achieving autonomy – make teens uniquely resistant to calls for social distancing.
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.
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Professor, Urban Studies and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong
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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, California State University, Los Angeles
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Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
