A study published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology examined how dominance and prestige influence social standing across men and women over time. The dominance-prestige framework, widely ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Social Influence of the Potato ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 187 No. 6 (December 1952), p. 50 doi:10.1038 ...

Eating disorders and social media use are two big concerns when it comes to teens. Here is what the research and experts say about the connection between the two.

“A social media profile is important,” he added. Moran has teamed up with the speaker, consultant and author, Alan Weiss, on the book Million Dollar Influence: How to Drive Powerful Decisions ...

32%) and visit brand pages on Facebook (43% vs. 30%). In addition, moms are more likely than other women to believe they can influence companies by voicing opinions on social networks (63% vs. 56%).

Latané and Darley attributed the bystander effect to two factors: diffusion of responsibility and social influence. The perceived diffusion of responsibility means that the more onlookers there ...

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it would be wrong to believe that social networks do not influence elections, said Andreas Jungherr, professor of political science and digital transformation at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg.