Posts tagged ‘twitter effects’
Jul 22 10
The Mood of the United States
A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University have gathered enough data from Twitter to give us all a snapshot of how we Americans feel throughout a typical day or week. It will surprise almost no one to learn that findings indicate a general mood slump mid-day and mid-week, when we are most likely to be at work. Our tweets show that we’re happiest in the early morning and late evening; during the week, our mood tends to peak on Sunday morning.
Jun 28 10
Social media makes us more cuddlesome
A new study made by Dr. Paul J Zak, ”neuroeconomics” that efforts to ” gauge the relationship between empathy and generosity” shows that social media increases the ”cuddle” chemical oxytocin in the brain. read more…