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• Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to…
• We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's…
• We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped…
• If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk…
• Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
• What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the…
• One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the…
• It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well…
• I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
• We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it…
• It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between…
• Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to…

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