Questions tagged [social-networks]
For questions pertaining to the scientific study of social networks or social network analysis.
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Publicly available social networks in apes and hunter-gatherer societies
Social network analysis is an indiscpensable tool for sociology, and is becoming increasing popular in anthropology, social-psychology and other fields. There are many papers that examine the ...
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Facebook dopamine kick - any proof?
A lot of people are writing that Facebook and other social media sites cause users to be addicted by serving up well timed dopamine kicks in response to interactions. I was searching for any sort of ...
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Effects of Social Networking websites on Humans?
What are the effects of social networking websites in the evolution of humans (behavioral, intellectual, etc.)?
Have their been any studies (published research, articles) on positive or negative ...
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Belongingness vs Social Connectedness
I am struggling with translation of these two words into my language. In many studies, they measure connectedness (or how much people feel connected) or belongingness (as need to belong or sense of ...
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How accurate is a person's estimate of their social networks knowledge?
A lot of studies have been performed on the nature of fake news and it's spread on social media sites:
"Perceived social presence reduces fact-checking"
"Echo chamber and trench warfare dynamics in ...
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Offical studies/papers of relationship evaluation in mobile apps
There is this heise article https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Die-Psycho-Tricks-der-App-Entwickler-4547123.html (unfortunatley in German) talking about manipulative mechanisms in mobile apps. He is ...
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Literacy and other traits of social network users vs. the larger society
Have sociological researches been made on the levels of literacy, culture, shared ethical values among the users of the many existing social networks compared to the larger national societies the ...
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References for how we perceive, process and give attention to news on social media
According to this popular science article, on most people read a social media article for 15 seconds or less, and watch a video for 10 seconds or less. I tried to go down the link rabbit hole, but ...
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How do people navigate the social world and find people who are similar?
I have taken enough psychology courses to know that people are attracted to those similar to them in personality, attitudes, and important values but no one explains how they accurately judge such ...
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Why are there few studies in the literature regarding human's pheromones?
Pheromones are thought to be the biological underpinning of the social behaviour. They have been extensively studied in animals. Pheromones are chemical factors that trigger a social response in ...
