Chicago: When it comes to changing health behaviours, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, US researchers said on Thursday. Social scientists have assumed that changing behaviour would spread like the flu, which transmits best via individuals with lots of long-distance contacts. But to change behaviour, you need to be surrounded by the message – with neighbours, family...
Prasun Chatterjee will receive the 2010 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award. ...
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