Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure
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Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure
The increasing ubiquity of web-based social networking services is a striking feature of modern human society. The degree to which individuals participate in these networks varies substantially for reasons that are unclear. Here, we show a biological basis for such variability by demonstrating that quantitative variation in the number of friends an individual declares on a web-based social netw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1959