A social rank explanation of how money influences health.

A Social Rank Explanation of How Money Influences Health

OBJECTIVE Financial resources are a potent determinant of health, yet it remains unclear why this is the case. We aimed to identify whether the frequently observed association between absolute levels of monetary resources and health may occur because money acts an indirect proxy for a person's social rank. METHOD To address this question we examined over 230,000 observations on 40,400 adults ...

How Does Money Influence Health?

Sociological Explanation of the Relationship Between Social Security Sense and Social Health

Background and Aim: One of the dimensions of health is social health. Social health indicates, in a way, the inviolability of the identity aspects of individuals in the community. From among the factors affecting social health, a sense of social security both in its objective and mental dimensions has a particularly significant effect, and also a fundamental impact, on the efficiency of individ...

How a User's Personality Influences Content Engagement in Social Media

Social media presents an opportunity for people to share content that they find to be significant, funny, or notable. No single piece of content will appeal to all users, but are there systematic variations between users that can help us better understand information propagation? We conducted an experiment exploring social media usage during disaster scenarios, combining electroencephalogram (E...

Why Utility Non-linearly Depends on Money: a Commonsense Explanation

Saving money for retirement: a simpli ed description of the problem. Let us consider a simpli ed version of this situation, when we only have two moments of the time: the current moment of time (when we earn money), and the future moment of time, in which we will not earn money. Suppose that at the present moment, we earn the amount m. Out of this amount, we can save s ≤ m and thus, spend the r...