Social Interaction

Social Interaction

• Research Confirms That No One Is Really Thinking About You (The Ascent, via Medium)
  

• This 75-Year Harvard study shows how to have lifetime joy (The Ladders)
• The key to working well with others: Expect the unexpected (World Economic Forum)
• Millennials, Gen Z Adults Prefer Texting Over Talking In Person (Study Finds)
• The silent killer of workplace happiness, productivity, and health is a lack of basic civility (Quartz)
• Touching Co-workers (Psychology Today)

Primary and Secondary Groups

• This is how long it takes adults to make new friends (The Next Web)
• I Was Ghosted By My Best Friend (Refinery 29)
• Do Your Friends Actually Like You? (New York Times)

Social Integration and Cohesion

• The friend effect: why the secret of health and happiness is surprisingly simple (The Guardian)
• Denmark has the happiest people in the world (Business Insider)
• You Think With the World, Not Just Your Brain (The Atlantic)
• 'We need human interaction': meet the LA man who walks people for a living (The Guardian)

Social Isolation

• How important are social relations for our health and well-being? (Our World in Data)
• Why humans are increasingly choosing to live alone (World Economic Forum)

• What Being Excluded Does To Your Brain (Forbes)
• Young People Are Lonelier Than Their Elders (NPR)
• Americans are becoming more socially isolated, but they're not feeling lonelier (The Conversation)
• The Perils of Social Isolation (Psychology Today)
• Variations of Loneliness (Association for Psychological Science)
• 4 In 10 Adult Americans Still Sleep With Teddy Bear (Study Finds)

Social Networks

• The Social Side of the Solo Cup (Social Occasions) (The Society Pages)

• How Connected is Your Online Presence to Everyone Else in America (The New York Times)
• 'People Helped You, Whether You Knew It Or Not' (NPR)

Social Contagion

• In a Bad Mood? You Might Have Picked it Up (CBS News)
• How Loneliness Begets Loneliness (The Atlantic)

Status

• 3 Ways Physical Space Defines Power in Relationship (Psychology Today)

• What is Microaggression (ThoughtCo)
• The 67 types of people in America, according to market researchers (Business Insider)

Obedience to Authority, Conformity, and Diffusion of Responsibility

• The Bystander Effect (Very Well)
• What it takes to stand up to authority (BBC)
• A Berkeley professor explains why society needs more troublemakers (Quartz)
• Clinic's reused needles may have exposed 40,000 to hepatitis, HIV (San Francisco Gate)