The SNAP (Social Networks and Personality) Lab, in the Department of Psychological Science at Vassar
We study how people's personalities relate to their social networks, in order to understand how personality functions, and how to assess it more accurately.
08/01/2016
Vassar featured a story on our summer URSI research on social networks, personality, and alcohol misuse
URSI: The Psychological Science behind Social Networks - News - Info - Vassar College Why do people become friends with one another, and when it comes to personality traits, do birds of a feather really flock together? This Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) project aims to find out.
06/01/2016
Social networks are important!
More and more research shows friends are good for your health One study found that loneliness might be worse than obesity.
05/16/2016
RadioLab this week replayed an episode that I'd missed on emergent properties of networks. Some interesting examples of how networks can make intelligence emerge from simple nodes (ants, people, neurons, etc.).
Emergence What happens when there is no leader? We look at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our brains.
05/13/2016
The SNAP lab's thesis students gave a fantastic presentation on their year-long study of Hookup Culture and Social Networks.