PSY 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Public Health, Human Behavior
15 Nov 2016
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To make sure that the researchers could find these people, they took names and information on a friend or family member. The social network had 12,067 people in it. They subjected participants to analysis and lots and lots of dataset. If a person you consider a friend become obese, the researchers found your own chances of becoming obese goes up to 57% Among mutual friends, the effect is even stronger, with changes increasing 171% Social networks have clusters of happy and unhappy. A(cid:448)erage of (cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:1004) (cid:862)frie(cid:374)ds(cid:863), (cid:271)ut o(cid:374)l(cid:455) si(cid:454) (cid:862)pi(cid:272)ture frie(cid:374)ds(cid:863) Looked at whether people were smiling in the pictures. Cons: results may not generalize to other situations. Human behavior: adult persistence of head-turning asymmetry, nature, Study of motor asymmetry by observing kissing in naturalistic settings. Observing the same behavior in several different situations. Interobserver reliability- the extent to which multiple obsevers agree.
