Persistence of social signatures in human communication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 942-947

  Saramäki, Jari ^a   Leicht, E A ^b   López, Eduardo ^b   Roberts, Sam G B ^c   Reed Tsochas, Felix ^b,d   Dunbar, Robin I M ^d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personal relationships; Quantitative sociology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EGO; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SIGNATURE; TEXT MESSAGING; UNIVERSITY; WORK;

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS; QUANTITATIVE SOCIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; EGO; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892910282     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308540110     Document Type: Article

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