A 2015 book by a psychologist who works with adult children of emotionally immature parents has taken off on social media, ‘validating’ its readers. But is it any good?
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Rioters were influenced by a shared anti-police identity – not just mindless violence.
If Facebook already knows how you feel from reading what you post, soon it will know from reading the expressions on your face.
While we need empathic skills to relate to others sometimes, too much empathy can be a bad thing.
Most of us have experienced the overwhelming urge to yawn in response to another person yawning – but we’re not the only species to do this. Research published in PeerJ today shows bonobos – our…
Facebook has faced a storm of protest since it revealed that it had carried out a large-scale secret experiment to find out if it could make users feel more positive or negative by editing feeds to expose…
Emotions spread between Facebook users much the same way diseases spread between people, a new study has found. Researchers…
Does reading a friend’s happy post on Facebook make you happier? This seems to be the case, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today – we may…
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