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Preferences and Social Influence [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018
Interaction between decision makers may affect their preferences. We consider a setup in which each individual is characterized by two sets of preferences: his unchanged core preferences and his behavioral preferences. Each individual has a social influence function that determines his behavioral preferences given his core preferences and the ...
Chaim Fershtman, Uzi Segal
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"Implementation and Social Influence" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper incorporates social psychology into implementation theory. Real individuals care not only about their material benefits but also about their social influence in terms of obedience and conformity. Using a continuous time horizon, we demonstrate a method of manipulating the decision-making process, according to which, an uninformed principal ...
Hitoshi Matsushima
core   +5 more sources

Social Influence Maximization in Hypergraphs [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
This work deals with a generalization of the minimum Target Set Selection (TSS) problem, a key algorithmic question in information diffusion research due to its potential commercial value. Firstly proposed by Kempe et al., the TSS problem is based on a linear threshold diffusion model defined on an input graph with node thresholds, quantifying the ...
Alessia Antelmi   +3 more
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Anonymous Social Influence [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
We study a stochastic model of influence where agents have “yes” or “no” inclinations on some issue, and opinions may change due to mutual influence among the agents. Each agent independently aggregates the opinions of the other agents and possibly herself.
Michel Grabisch   +3 more
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Reciprocity of social influence [PDF]

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
Humans seek advice, via social interaction, to improve their decisions. While social interaction is often reciprocal, the role of reciprocity in social influence is unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that our influence on others affects how much we are influenced by them.
Ali Mahmoodi   +3 more
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How social networks influence human behavior: An integrated latent space approach for differential social influence [PDF]

open access: yesPsychometrika 88 (2023) 1529-1555, 2021
How social networks influence human behavior has been an interesting topic in applied research. Existing methods often utilized scale-level behavioral data to estimate the influence of a social network on human behavior. This study proposes a novel approach to studying social influence that utilizes item-level behavioral measures.
arxiv   +1 more source

Social influences on eating [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2016
Eating behaviour is strongly influenced by social context. We eat differently when we are with other people compared with when we eat alone. Our dietary choices also tend to converge with those of our close social connections. One reason for this is that conforming to the behaviour of others is adaptive and we find it rewarding.
Higgs, Suzanne, Thomas, Jason
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Self-persuading norms: Adding a self-persuasion technique strengthens the influence of descriptive social norms

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2022
Social norms have been implemented to change a variety of behaviors. Yet, these studies show noticeable dispersion of effects. We suggest that such dispersion is partially due to people perceiving reasons for following a certain norm to be more or less ...
Magnus Bergquist, Emma Ejelöv
doaj   +1 more source

The social contagious effects of violent video game play: retaliatory, displaced, and the mere observation of aggression

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2023
Aggression and violence have been shown to spread among connected individuals. The present experimental study aims to test whether exposure to violent video games increases aggression levels in players and whether this increased aggression spreads among ...
Martin Delhove, Tobias Greitemeyer
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