“Change is nature…” – 🎬 Ratatouille (2007) This line is delivered by Anton Ego, the feared food critic, near the end of Ratatouille. After tasting Remy’s cooking and being reminded of the warmth of ...

Abstract: In the consensus reaching process (CRP) of social network group decision making, the noncooperative behavior exhibited by experts will hinder the achievement of group consensus. This article ...

I came to the social skills group to make friends. At 11 years old, I had close to none. Each week, we would learn about different skills. Things like how to say hello, how to say goodbye, how loud to ...

Abstract: Individual interactions and conformity play a crucial role in shaping group opinions and influencing the decision-making process. This article introduces a novel opinion evolution model to ...

It's become part of our culture: liking, commenting, and sharing on social media, but with increasing regularity, those commonplace actions are costing people their jobs. The message here isn't that ...

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of online networks. Combatting it has become an "arms race" between truth and ...

Andrew Kessel was a breaking news writer for Investopedia until October 2025. He previously covered markets for Proactive Investors, with a focus on small-cap stocks in fintech, healthcare, mining, ...

Oxytocin promotes social behaviors and helps maintain relationships. But clinical trials in patients with autism show variability in how consistently oxytocin improves these behaviors. Steve Chang, ...

Adam Nelson, a principal investigator in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent behavioral interactions that ...

Predicting who will share The researchers also looked at whether it's possible to predict who is likely to share content based on social influence. For influence-driven behavior, they found that ...