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May 8, 2009

New study finds no link between Facebook use and academic performance

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 2:00 pm
Last month it was widely reported that a study had found Facebook users have lower grades. At the time I had my doubts about some of the conclusions newspapers were drawing. Now a new study criticises the original, and finds no link between Facebook and grades.The authors were unhappy that although the previous study, which [...]... Josh Pasek, Eian More, & Eszter Hargittai. (2009) Facebo

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April 25, 2009

Atheists are unhappy? Really?

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 12:00 am
Most studies looking at the demography of religion take a broad look - religion as a continuum from the highly devout to the stridently atheist. They tend to find that the religious people are, the happier they are.But it's pretty hard to gauge what that actually means for atheists. Atheists are different from religious people with doubts. Also, many atheists in religious countries find themselve

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