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there was around a 40 per cent turnover in network membership (technically known as ‘churn’) over the eighteen months that we had been tracking them.

How do individual people react to cyberspace? – How do people interact with each other online? – How do people behave in online groups and communities? – What is normal and abnormal behavior? – How can cyberspace promote mental health?

account is a major step in which adolescents

“The more you think happiness is a social thing, the better off you are,” Brett explained to me, summarizing

Dopamine had its strongest effect at the network level (indexed by measures such as how many close friends you have, and how engaged you are with your local community),

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

Even though children grow up surrounded by a bevy of positive role models, a question of critical importance is when and why bad lessons are learned as opposed to good ones. What leads some kids to fix on Eminem, Donald Trump, or professional wrestlers as their role models?

Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

That was exactly what happened—the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem. These early findings suggest that groups are like mind-altering substa