Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Background: Social interactions are important for well-being, and therefore, researchers are
increasingly attempting to capture people's social environment. Many different disciplines …

This paper studies social network changes during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands
and their relation to perceived loneliness for the younger and the older cohorts. Arguments …

Popular accounts in both social science and society claim that unemployment goes together
with social withdrawal. However, empirical support for this conclusion is largely derived from …

This article reviews recent methodological research that bears on the collection of
egocentric network data. It begins with background on setting egocentric network …

In spring 2020, many US colleges and universities rapidly shifted to online instruction and
implemented social distancing policies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students …

High rates of egocentric network turnover are frequently observed but not well explained.
About 1000 respondents to the UCNets survey named an average of 10 names in each of …

This article introduces the concept of “unlinked lives” and illustrates its significance for
scholarship on the life course. There are many lessons to be learned about human …

This study examines how social media and information-sharing behavior can influence
young adults' perceptions of changes in tie strength within their own personal networks. By …

In this article we investigate how migrants' processes of social (dis‐) embedding in local and
transnational contexts unfold over time and illustrate their driving forces. Drawing on unique …