Social Norms: Can They Be Changed for the Better?
In other words, if we understand how social norms are formed and how they change, we might be able to also change them for the better. One fascinating study by Cristina Bicchieri and Hugo Mercier investigated this possibility.
Surround Yourself With Good People: Positivity Spreads
Facebook has found that seeing positive posts influences people to post positive updates, seeing negative posts influences people to post negative updates, and that an absence of emotion on their News Feed leads them to post less overall.
Psychology of Influence: Connected–How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect You More Than You Think
Along the way, he paired up with James and they realized social influence doesn't stop with the people we know. It extends to our friends' friends. In other words, our actions potentially affect people we have never met. They discovered--for example--that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. Crazy, huh?
Salvation in the Old Testament? How Non-Family Became Family.
Abimelech, Melchizedek, Jethro, the Egyptians, the Ninevites, Rahab, Ruth. While the Bible doesn’t apply the term salvation to Gentiles, it’s clear non-Israelites were sometimes granted belonging and identity among God’s people.
Male Friendship: What The Research Says About Guy Friends.
I've been plowing through research on how humans connect to each other for several weeks now.
We've covered a lot of territory so far, following how people experience friendship from childhood to older adulthood. Besides looking at how life stage impacts our relationships, one of the most common themes in existing research has been related to friendship and gender.
Gender and Friendship: Bad News About Guy Friends
Sorry guys, some research suggests that adult, white, heterosexual ...