After the death of a friend, healing in a human social network

(University of California - San Diego) 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.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2oDSwTF