
What Your Facebook Network Reveals about How You Use Your Brain
If your friends mostly know each other only indirectly, through you, you're likely to be a better problem solver and to be more successful overall
Emily Falk, PhD, is an associate professor of communication, psychology and marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Penn Communication Neuroscience Lab. She studies persuasion, behavior change and how ideas spread, using tools from social and brain sciences.
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