Friendship is the single most important factor influencing our health, well-being, and
happiness. Creating and maintaining friendships is, however, extremely costly, in terms of …

The new high-choice media environment has raised concerns that users of social
networking sites primarily select political information that supports their political opinions …

The impact of the Internet across multiple aspects of modern society is clear. However, the
influence that it may have on our brain structure and functioning remains a central topic of …

When people are facing difficulties, they often feel the need for a confidant-a person to vent
to or a sympathetic ear with whom to talk things through. How do they decide on whom to …

When people are forced to be isolated from each other, do they crave social interactions? To
address this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural …

Awe has been theorized as a collective emotion, one that enables individuals to integrate
into social collectives. In keeping with this theorizing, we propose that awe diminishes the …

This paper presents a research agenda for understanding how entrepreneurs accrue social
capital in the digital age. We develop a conceptual framework with 12 research propositions …

Rising political polarization in recent decades has hampered and gridlocked policymaking,
as well as weakened trust in democratic institutions. These developments have been linked …

Nonhuman primates use social touch for maintenance and reinforcement of social
structures, yet the role of social touch in human bonding in different reproductive, affiliative …

We use data on frequencies of bi-directional posts to define edges (or relationships) in two
Facebook datasets and a Twitter dataset and use these to create ego-centric social …