I had the pleasure earlier this summer of speaking with Anna Asker, who writes for the Swedish newspaper SvD, about our research on Facebook and Loneliness. In a nutshell, our data showed that at least with university students and the “nonymous” environment of Facebook, connectivity offline predicted connectivity online. The Read more…
My children claim that somehow their Dad and I brainwashed them into thinking that there was no choice but to be highly educated. When Kristin was about 7, she asked me if I would be mad at her if she didn’t get a Ph.D. I asked her if she even Read more…
It’s that time of year again–APS! We had a great time with our FaceBook study last year, although the LinkedIn “Connect with me” t-shirts we wore might have been a little bit over the top. This year, our research group had some fun with the California Q-sort (Block, 2008). We compared student Read more…
One of the main reasons I bought an iPad (okay, in addition to the coolness factor) was that I strongly believe this will be the textbook platform of the future. I am hopeful that we can move in the direction of providing easily updated, heavily linked content that will allow Read more…
Congrats to last year’s APS student research group for getting some nice recognition in this quarter’s issue (Jan/Feb) of Scientific American Mind. Writer David DiSalvo incorporated our results into his article “Are Social Networks Messing With Your Head?” We found that in contrast with previous reports of people “being somebody Read more…