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Excessive Facebook Use Can Damage Relationships, MU Study Finds

By Guest PostJune 12, 2013Culture, Technologyalexander nagurney, damage, excessive facebook use, facebook induced jealousy, facebook related conflict, facebook users, hilo, jessica r smith, matured relationships, personal facebook use, reduce conflict, relationships, romantic relationships, russell clayton, Social networking, university of hawaii, university of missouri, web sites

Using Facebook too much can lead to cheating, breakup and divorce

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Facebook and other social networking web sites have revolutionized the way people create and maintain relationships. However, new research shows that Facebook use could actually be damaging to users’ romantic relationships. Russell Clayton, a doctoral student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism, found that individuals who use Facebook excessively are far more likely to experience Facebook–related conflict with their romantic partners, which then may cause negative relationship outcomes including emotional and physical cheating, breakup and divorce.

In their study, Clayton, along with Alexander Nagurney, an instructor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and Jessica R. Smith, a doctoral student at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, surveyed Facebook users ages 18 to 82 years old. Participants were asked to describe how often they used Facebook and how much, if any, conflict arose between their current or former partners as a result of Facebook use. The researchers found that high levels of Facebook use among couples significantly predicted Facebook-related conflict, which then significantly predicted negative relationship outcomes such as cheating, breakup, and divorce. (more…)

Good Intentions Ease Pain, Add to Pleasure: UMD Study

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2012Culture, General, Healthbenevolent condition, business, business strategy, computer, electric massage, god, god and evil, good intention, intention, kurt gray, malicious condition, medicine, nurse, pain, parenting, physical experience, pleasure, power, real world applications, relationships, sooth pain, tender care, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A nurse’s tender loving care really does ease the pain of a medical procedure, and grandma’s cookies really do taste better, if we perceive them to be made with love – suggests newly published research by a University of Maryland psychologist. The findings have many real-world applications, including in medicine, relationships, parenting and business.

“The way we read another person’s intentions changes our physical experience of the world,” says UMD Assistant Professor Kurt Gray, author of “The Power of Good Intentions,” newly published online ahead of print in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Gray directs the Maryland Mind Perception and Morality Lab. (more…)

University and Netmums Join Forces To Tackle Postnatal Depression

By Guest PostJanuary 18, 2012Healthanxiety, cbt, cbt programmes, cognitive behavioural therapy, derbyshire, devon, emma seaman, freelance marketing professional, heather omahen, honiton, julia mcginley, lived experience group, mood disorders centre, netmums, newton abbot, nihr, online, parenting website, penclahrc, postnatal depression, range of modules, relationships, sally piper, sleep problems, treatments for depression, university of exeter

The University of Exeter and parenting website Netmums are developing a new online therapy programme for postnatal depression.

This innovative approach to treatment has been created in response to the stigma that still surrounds postnatal depression, preventing many women from seeking help.

The research is supported by the PenCLAHRC, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership and Applied Health Research and Care.

The research team hopes its programme will pave the way for future online treatments for depression. They are conducting this confidential study of the treatment for free and will assess its effectiveness against regular treatment. (more…)

Facebook Helps Researchers See How Friendships Form

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2011Culture, Technologyadvertising, basic building blocks, classical, diffusion, emotional health, Facebook, friends, friendship, harvard university, influence, internet, internet and society, internet relationships, jason kaufman, jazz, kevin lewis, marco gonzalez, mechanisms, national science foundation, network, obesity, online social network, patterns of social segregation, relationships, reproduction of inequality, role, society, sociologists, statistical methods

*Long-term study analyzes social selection and peer influence in online environments*

New research funded by the National Science Foundation and published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by three Harvard University sociologists examines how we select our friends and the role that friendship plays in transmitting tastes and new ideas.

Relationships are basic building blocks of society, and understanding who befriends whom can therefore provide insight into patterns of social segregation, mechanisms for the reproduction of inequality, social support (including mental and emotional health), and access to job opportunities. Some have even viewed these relationships as a means to influence behavior whether to control obesity or target advertising. But is it really that easy, even on the Internet, to make friends with people who have different cultural upbringings, different interests, different backgrounds and different tastes in movies, music and books? (more…)

More Reasons to Be Nice: It’s Less Work for Everyone

By Guest PostMarch 11, 2011Culturealtruism, common etiquette, critical distance model, david rosenbaum, emily post, joseph santamaria, polite act, relationships, social codes

A polite act shows respect. But a new study of a common etiquette—holding a door for someone—suggests that courtesy may have a more practical, though unconscious, shared motivation: to reduce the work for those involved. The research, by Joseph P. Santamaria and David A. Rosenbaum of Pennsylvania State University, is the first to combine two fields of study ordinarily considered unrelated: altruism and motor control. It is to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

“The way etiquette has been viewed by Emily Post—that you’re being proper by following social codes—is undoubtedly part of it,” said psychology professor Rosenbaum. “Our insight is there is another contributor: the mental representation of other people’s physical effort. Substantial research in the field of motor control shows that people are good at estimating how much effort they and others expend,” Rosenbaum continued. “We realized that this concept could be extended to a shared-effort model of politeness.” (more…)

Social Network Games Even Help Grown-ups With Their Relationships

By Guest PostFebruary 25, 2011Culture, Technologyadults, clifford lampe, Facebook, facebook users, farmville, michigan state university, nicole ellison, playing games, relationship management strategies, relationships, rick wash, social game, social network games, social network sites, yvette wohn

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Think social network games are just for kids? A recent Michigan State University study found that many adults are playing games such as Facebook’s “Farmville” to help initiate, develop and maintain relationships.

The MSU team of researchers interviewed a number of Facebook users between the ages of 25 and 55, said Yvette Wohn, a doctoral student in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media who led the study.

“The interesting thing is that we were asking people how they use Facebook to manage their different relationships,” she said. “Surprisingly, all but one person talked about playing games as one of their relationship-management strategies.” (more…)

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