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Flocking-enhanced social contagion [PDF]
Physical Review Research, 2020 Populations of mobile agents—animal groups, robot swarms, or crowds of people—self-organize into a large diversity of states as a result of information exchanges with their surroundings.
Demian Levis +3 more
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The social contagion of generosity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Why do people help strangers when there is a low probability that help will be directly reciprocated or socially rewarded? A possible explanation is that these acts are contagious: those who receive or observe help from a stranger become more likely to ...
Milena Tsvetkova, Michael W Macy
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The Social Contagion of Antisocial Behavior The Social Contagion of Antisocial Behavior [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2015 Previous research has shown that reciprocity can be contagious when there is no option to repay the benefactor and the recipient instead channels repayment toward strangers. In this study, we test whether retaliation can also be contagious.
Milena Tsvetkova, Michael W. Macy
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Simplicial models of social contagion [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Social contagion cannot only be understood in terms of pairwise interactions among individuals. Here, the authors include higher-order social interactions, the effects of groups, in their model of social contagion, enabling insight into why critical ...
Iacopo Iacopini +3 more
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Social contagion of affiliation in female macaques [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Social contagion of non-interactive behaviour is widespread among animals including humans. It is thought to facilitate behavioural synchronization and consequently group cohesion, coordination and opportunities for social learning.
Julia Ostner +2 more
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How to Facilitate Social Contagion? [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2013 Achieving the Millennium Development Goals has proven to be a real challenge. Providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients.
Karl Blanchet
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Explorations in the social contagion of memory [PDF]
Memory and Cognition, 2002 Four experiments examined social influence on the development of false memories. We employed the social contagion paradigm: A subject and a confederate see scenes and then later take turns recalling items from the scenes, with the confederate erroneously reporting some items that were not present in the scenes; on a final test, the subject reports ...
Michelle L Meade +2 more
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Social Connectedness and Local Contagion [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2021 Abstract We study a coordination game among agents in a network. The agents choose whether to take action (e.g. adopting a new technology) in an uncertain environment that yields increasing value in the actions of neighbours. We develop an algorithm that fully partitions the network into communities (coordination sets) within which ...
Leister, C. Matthew +2 more
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The Influence of Entrepreneur Behavior on Credit Risk Contagion
IEEE Access, 2023 The rescue behavior and information dissemination behavior of entrepreneurs affect the number of infected enterprises and thus the credit risk contagion. We construct an epidemic model considering entrepreneurial behavior.
Jingyi Zhang, Xuejuan Liu
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Social contagion of memory [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2001 We report a new paradigm for studying false memories implanted by social influence, a process we call the social contagion of memory. A subject and confederate together saw six common household scenes (e.g., a kitchen) containing many objects, for either 15 or 60 sec.
H L, Roediger, M L, Meade, E T, Bergman
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