After the death of a friend, healing in a human social network
Monday, April 24, 2017 - 10:41
in Psychology & Sociology
The first large-scale study of recovery and resilience after a death in a friend group -- based on analysis of interactions in 15,000 anonymized networks on Facebook -- finds that when a friend dies, we get closer to that person's friends. The social network repairs itself in ways that keep our total connectedness the same.