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Study describes evolution of double-sided social norms for cooperative interactions

A schematic diagram of the model. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011271 In addition to describing biological interactions, evolutionary theory has also become a valuable tool to make sense of the dynamics of social norms. Social norms determine which behaviors should be regarded as positive, and how community members should act towards each other.…

What Is Social Media Mining And How Can It Benefit You?

You ought to have heard this many times that agencies like Facebook, or Google can listen to our thoughts and spot us as we move approximately our day. Don’t worry, we don’t want any other Edward Snowden. But it is not that these companies track us down on a daily basis but just relate to our daily activities, which are quite predictable. This is what Social Media Mining is! Where big companies collect data indirectly and use it in a way to improve our quality of life. But is this good or bad, can it be harmful to the…

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds

For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they scrolled through their newsfeeds, Facebook and Instagram showed them the newest posts as determined by the clock, not those judged most relevant by an algorithm. The response was clear: Users served chronological feeds got bored quicker and were much more likely to decamp to rivals such as YouTube and TikTok.That result emerged from a…

Misinformation is rife and causing deeper polarization—here’s how social media users can help curb it

by Jason Weismueller, Paul Harrigan, Richard L. Gruner and Shasha Wang, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Many Australians believe the nation is more politically polarized and divided today than in the past. It's a divide that has long plagued the United States, but new data show it is increasingly eroding nations' unity, shared goals, and well-being all over the world,…

Meta Takes Some Profitable Social Cues

The Facebook parent’s strong results and outlook set a better stage for the investment cycle. The Facebook parent’s strong results and outlook set a better stage for the investment cycle. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the…

J. Cole Says Staying Off Social Media, Meditation Helped Mental Health – Rolling Stone

J. Cole sat down with Kevin Hart for his show Hart To Heart on Peacock, and opened up about how meditation and staying off social media has benefited his mental health. The Off-Season artist said that his new publicist had helped him find his way back to utilizing the art of meditation. “So I got with this new publicist, Kathryn Frazier, and she’s amazing woman. She was telling me how she was into meditation, transcendental meditation,” said J. Cole, per VIBE. “And I had flirted with it in my early twenties,…

Justice Department and EPA Probe Telecom Companies Over Lead Cables

EPA demands data under “Superfund” law, prompted by WSJ articles. EPA demands data under “Superfund” law, prompted by WSJ articles. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please…

Family trees from the European Neolithic shed light on social organization

The “founding father” of the cemetery died elsewhere but was reburied at Gurgy. He must have been of great significance to the close kin group who used the cemetery. Credit: Drawing by Elena Plain; reproduced with the permission of the University of Bordeaux / PACEA The Neolithic lifestyle, based on farming instead of hunting and gathering, emerged in the Near East around 12,000 years ago and contributed profoundly to the…