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On the submodularity of influence in social networks [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the thirty-ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing, 2007
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where the nodes are individuals and the edges indicate a form of social relationship.
Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch
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Why Don't Men Ever Stop to Ask for Directions? Gender, Social Influence, and Their Role in Technology Acceptance and Usage Behavior

open access: yesMIS Q., 2000
Using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this research investigated gender differences in the overlooked context of individual adoption and sustained usage of technology in the workplace. User reactions and technology usage behavior were studied over
V. Venkatesh, Michael G. Morris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gratitude, indebtedness, and reciprocity: an extended replication of Bartlett & DeSteno (2006)

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2020
In a landmark study in 2006, Bartlett and DeSteno found that receiving help promoted reciprocal behavior and that this effect was mediated by gratitude.
Cong Peng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategic Influence in Social Networks [PDF]

open access: yesMathematics of Operations Research, 2018
We consider a model of influence with a set of nonstrategic agents and two strategic agents. The nonstrategic agents have initial opinions and are linked through a simply connected network. They update their opinions as in the DeGroot model. The two strategic agents have fixed and opposed opinions.
Grabisch, Michel   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Computational Social Science, 2019
While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and polarized clusters known as “echo chambers.” Here we study the conditions ...
K. Sasahara   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reflecting on Social Influence in Networks [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Logic, Language and Information, 2016
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Zoé Christoff   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization

open access: yesNature, 2012
Human behaviour is thought to spread through face-to-face social networks, but it is difficult to identify social influence effects in observational studies, and it is unknown whether online social networks operate in the same way–.
Robert M. Bond   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A meta-analysis of the pique technique of compliance

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2017
A random-effects meta-analysis was undertaken to examine the effectiveness of the pique technique of compliance-gaining. Results indicated an overall significant effect of the pique technique on increased compliance rate across 17 comparisons (r = .27 ...
Seyoung Lee, Thomas Hugh Feeley
doaj   +1 more source

Does the female cycle matter? Looking at aggressive intentions after social exclusion

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2017
Excluded people vary in their coping with social pain. The menstrual cycle has shown to moderate experiences related to pain. We therefore investigated the influence of the menstrual cycle on aggressive intentions in response to social exclusion. Results
Caroline Zygar, Michaela Pfundmair
doaj   +1 more source

The language of politics: ideological differences in congressional communication on social media and the floor of Congress

open access: yesSocial Influence, 2020
Theory and research in political psychology, most of which is based on self-report studies of ordinary citizens, suggests that liberals and conservatives differ in terms of personality traits, value priorities, cognitive styles, and motivational ...
John T. Jost, Joanna Sterling
doaj   +1 more source

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