The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between social network variables and levels of and longitudinal changes in blood pressure in a middle-aged/older sample. The participants (50-75 years at baseline; n=1097) responded to questions concerning social relationships at baseline and their blood pressure (diastolic, systolic) was measured. Blood pressure levels were reassessed 5, 10...

We are exploring the use of small displays as an instrument to enhance social communication. Our focus is on encouraging communication between strangers by revealing the existence of common friends. In the following we present the concept of the SocialButton, a wearable mobile device which displays aspects of friend-of-a-friend networks. A group study has provided us with an initial understandi...

An example of game theory is the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma. Suppose you and a friend are arrested for robbery. You are put in separate cells. The police lack sufficient evidence to convict either of you, so they try to get one of you to testify against each other. The police tell you that if you testify against your friend, you will be released, provided your friend does not testify against yo...

We conducted two studies to examine gender differences in response to Facebook status updates from same and opposite gender friends. Study 1 surveyed 522 undergraduate students (216 females and 306 males), and compared males’ and females’ responses to two Facebook status updates: one from a same gender friend and one from an opposite gender friend. Females’ public replies and private messages t...

The following table gives an analysis of two hundred consecutive cases of cataract extraction since Ma}', 1896. I liave before me notes of every case. The operations have been performed in about equal numbers by Mr. Arthur Neve and myself. But during the past four months, in the absence of Mr. Arthur Neve, my friend, Mr. W. F. Adams, has been my colleague. (1) Variety.?Senile 189; soft 6; glauc...

Abstract Prior studies on individual differences in the preference for cross-sex friendships found that this was not normally distributed but instead bimodal. In one group of people, preferences higher or lower proportions appear to be distributed, whereas a second and unexpectedly large friends is exactly zero. If people with no at all actively avoid forming friendships, then these individuals...