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Generalized Trust and Social Selection Process

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
Generalized trust relieves individuals in a socially uncertain situation from dyadic constraints of existing ties and helps them change ties with other individuals to acquire better resources.
Tasuku Igarashi, Taro Hirashima
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Statistical methods for the estimation of contagion effects in human disease and health networks

open access: yesComputational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020
Contagion effects, sometimes referred to as spillover or influence effects, have long been central to the study of human disease and health networks. Accurate estimation and identification of contagion effects are important in terms of understanding the ...
Ran Xu
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Understanding Allogrooming Through a Dynamic Social Network Approach: An Example in a Group of Dairy Cows

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
For gregarious species such as domestic cattle, the social environment is a very important determinant of their welfare and fitness. Understanding the complexity of cows' relationships can assist the development of management practices that are more ...
Inés de Freslon   +3 more
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Evolving Patterns of Aggression: Investigating the Structure of Gang Violence during the Era of Civil Gang Injunctions

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2020
Mapping the structural characteristics of attack behavior, this study explores how violent conflict evolved with the implementation of civil gang injunctions (CGIs).
Gisela Bichler   +2 more
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Dynamic Evolution Analysis of Social Network in cMOOC Based on RSiena Model

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2022
The network is a key concept which has been highly valued in connectivism. Research about the static characteristics of social networks in connectivist learning has been carried out in recent years, however, little knowledge exists regarding the ...
Yaqian Xu, Junlei Du
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The Meeting of Minds: Forging Social and Intellectual Networks within Universities

open access: yesSociological Science, 2020
How are social and intellectual relations structured and given shape within research universities? To answer these questions, we test to what extent various theoretically predicted processes explain the dynamics of academics’ networks of collaboration ...
Tobias H. Stark   +2 more
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The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation for Making and Keeping Friend and Conflict Networks

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
We used social network analysis (SNA) to examine how adaptive ER strategies (acceptance, positive reappraisal, refocusing, and putting in perspective) and maladaptive ER strategies (rumination, catastrophizing, self- and other-blame) predict the creation
Courtney Ricciardi   +2 more
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Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor‐oriented models [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, 2017
Summary Animals are embedded in dynamically changing networks of relationships with conspecifics. These dynamic networks are fundamental aspects of their environment, creating selection on behaviours and other traits. However, most social network‐based approaches in ecology are constrained to considering networks as static, despite several calls for
Fisher, DN   +3 more
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Social Influence on Observed Race

open access: yesSociological Science, 2018
This article introduces a novel theoretical approach for understanding racial fluidity, emphasizing the social embeddedness of racial classifications. We propose that social ties affect racial perceptions through within-group micromechanisms, resulting ...
Zsófia Boda
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