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Kick Cat Effect: Social Context Shapes the Form and Extent of Emotional Contagion
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Emotional contagion refers to the transmission and interaction of emotions among people. Researchers have mainly focused on its process and mechanism, often simplifying its social background due to its complexity.
Ling Zhang +5 more
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Social learning with complex contagion
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesTraditional models of social learning by imitation are based on simple contagion—where an individual may imitate a more successful neighbor following a single interaction. But real-world contagion processes are often complex, meaning that multiple exposures may be required before an individual considers changing their type.
Hiroaki Chiba-Okabe, Joshua B. Plotkin
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COMPLEX CONTAGION IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS WITH DISTRUST [PDF]
Advances in Complex SystemsSocial systems are characterized by the presence of group interactions and by the existence of both trust and distrust relations. Although there is a wide literature on signed social networks, where positive signs associated to the links indicate trust, friendship, agreement, while negative signs represent distrust, antagonism, and disagreement, very ...
Jean-François de Kemmeter +4 more
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Animals, 2022 Behavioral contagion has been defined as a phenomenon in which an unlearned behavior automatically triggers a similar behavior in others. Previous studies showed that a behavioral contagion might have the function of strengthening social relationships ...
Yu-Heng Zhang +4 more
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Complex Contagion Features without Social Reinforcement in a Model of Social Information Flow
Entropy, 2020 Contagion models are a primary lens through which we understand the spread of information over social networks. However, simple contagion models cannot reproduce the complex features observed in real-world data, leading to research on more complicated ...
Tyson Pond +4 more
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Kinetics of Social Contagion [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2015 Diffusion of information, behavioral patterns or innovations follows diverse pathways depending on a number of conditions, including the structure of the underlying social network, the sensitivity to peer pressure and the influence of media. Here we study analytically and by simulations a general model that incorporates threshold mechanism capturing ...
Ruan, Zhongyuan +4 more
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The Simple Rules of Social Contagion [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2014 AbstractIt is commonly believed that information spreads between individuals like a pathogen, with each exposure by an informed friend potentially resulting in a naive individual becoming infected. However, empirical studies of social media suggest that individual response to repeated exposure to information is far more complex.
Nathan Oken Hodas, Kristina Lerman
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Social contagion of ethnic hostility [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Significance We provide experimental evidence on peer effects and show that behavior that harms members of a different ethnic group is twice as contagious as behavior that harms coethnics. The findings may help to explain why ethnic hostilities can spread quickly (even in societies with few visible signs of interethnic hatred) and why many ...
Michal Bauer +3 more
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Social dilemmas of sociality due to beneficial and costly contagion.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2022 Levels of sociality in nature vary widely. Some species are solitary; others live in family groups; some form complex multi-family societies. Increased levels of social interaction can allow for the spread of useful innovations and beneficial information,
Daniel B Cooney +4 more
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The opacity problem in social contagion [PDF]
Social Networks, 2018 Many social phenomena can be modeled as cascades in networks, where nodes adopt a behavior in response to peers adopting. When studying cascades, researchers typically assume that the number of active peers when a node adopts is equivalent to the node’s threshold for adoption.
George Berry +3 more
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