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In the end, the slant of the news you see may be the slant of the news you seek. Even if most Facebook users still don’t know that their news feeds are filtered by an algorithm, they may have more influence over their feeds than they realize. That was the finding of a controversial peer-reviewed study published in Science Magazine
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Dolphins — they’re just like us. According to a study recently published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, bottlenose dolphins cluster into unique social networks, similarly to how humans socialize. While dolphins have been known to form communities based on kinship, food preferences and location within their habitat, the study shows that they also exhibit preferential and avoidance behaviors for
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Paying too much attention to your Facebook friends’ updates could be bad for your mental health, according to a new study. Researchers found that heavy Facebook use may make certain people experience feelings of envy, which in turn could lead to depression. “We found that if Facebook users experience envy of the activities and lifestyles of their friends on Facebook,
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A Facebook study that manipulated your newsfeed to make you sad or happy was the most popular research of 2014, according to a company that tracks online discussions around scientific articles. The study, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” topped Altmetric’s ranking of the academic research that received “the most attention online” in 2014. Altmetric considered how
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