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Rethinking the Value of Pets
The New York Times: Think an elderly family member is better off with a pet? You may want to think again. Sure, there have been hundreds of articles claiming dogs and cats can lower blood
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Facebook: Is this any place for the not-so-self-assured to make friends?
Los Angeles Times: Facebook, the social networking giant that connects 845 million people to one another, may be a jolly gabfest for the self-assured. But for those who suffer from low self-esteem, it appears to
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Negative Nancy? Your Facebook friends might hate you for it: Study
Toronto Sun: Stop complaining on Facebook. Your “friends” are starting to hate you for it, a study from Ontario’s University of Waterloo suggests. “People with low self-esteem seem to behave counterproductively, bombarding their friends with
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Psicologia: Facebook insidia per chi ha scarsa autostima
Yahoo Italia: Facebook è per molti, ma non per tutti. Il social network dei record, infatti, è controindicato per le persone con scarsa autostima. Secondo uno studio pubblicato su ‘Psychological Science’, infatti, questo tipo di
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Your Negative Status Updates Rub People the Wrong Way, Apparently
TIME: Those who use social media as a way to get an ego boost from friends and family (you know who you are), be warned: a new study has found that those with low self-esteem
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It’s Not Me, It’s You
The New York Times: WHEN Jeryl Brunner, a writer in Manhattan, was in her 20s, she had a friend who was just the sort of acquaintance people scoop up in their social net when they
