A multidisciplinary team lead by David DeSteno, Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, has been awarded a $720,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate what mechanism individuals use to assess the trustworthiness of unfamiliar others.
The term researchers use is “co-rumination” to describe frequently or obsessively discussing the same problem. The behavior is typical among teens — Why didn’t he call? Should I break up with him? And, psychologists say, it has intensified significantly with e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging and Facebook. And in certain cases it can spin into a potentially contagious and unhealthy emotional angst, experts say.
"Trust is the baseline," says Susan Fiske, a social psychologist at Princeton University. "Trustworthiness is the very first thing that we decide about a person, and once we've decided, we do all kinds of elaborate gymnastics to believe in people."
How the Internet affects the groups where we live and work, including how they grow and change, their social dynamics, and the activities we do there.
Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem.
...the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditional markers of status and hierarchy. While there are certainly youth who engage in a variety of geeky practices, the vast majority of youth use tools like MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, and mobile phones to socialize with peers from school, church, and activities.
Apparently, college students have heard enough horror stories about potential employers scouring Facebook that many are restricting who can see their profiles — so that any snapshots of drunken revelry, or the like, are available only to friends.
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A multidisciplinary team lead by David DeSteno, Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, has been awarded a $720,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate what mechanism individuals use to assess the trustworthiness of unfamiliar others.
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