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Lack of sexual behavior disclosure may distort STI testing outcomes

4 | China , Sexuality , Social Determinants , Global Health

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N. Kumar, L. Forastiere, Zhang TP, Yang F., Li KT, Tang W., Tucker JD, N. A. Christakis, and M. Alexander, “Lack of sexual behavior disclosure may distort STI testing outcomes,” BMC Public Health, (2020) 20:616 (May 2020) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-08768-5

Collective Communication and Behaviour in Response to Uncertain “Danger” in Network Experiments

8 | Connection Intervention , Breadboard Software , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Experiment , NAC Favorite , Social Contagion , Network Targeting

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H. Shirado, F. Crawford, and N. A. Christakis, “Collective Communication and Behaviour in Response to Uncertain “Danger” in Network Experiments,” Proceedings A of the Royal Society, 476(2237): 1-19 (May 2020) DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0685

Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism

5 | Cooperation , Mental Health , Experiment , Breadboard Software , Public Goods

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S.K. Iwamoto, M. Alexander, M. Torres, M.R. Irwin, N. A. Christakis, and A. Nishi, “Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism,” Scientific Reports, 10(1): 6511 (Apr 2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62652-1

Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team

6 | Methodology , NAC Favorite , PNAS , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Hybrid Systems , Contagion Intervention

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M. Traeger, S. Strohkorb Sebo, M. F. Jung, B. Scassellati, and N. A. Christakis, “Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117 (12) 6370-6375 (Mar 2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910402117

Assortative mating at loci under recent natural selection in humans

7 | Methodology , Behavior Genetics , Evolutionary Biology , Genetics , NAC Favorite , Homophily , Marriage

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A. Nishi, M. Alexander, J.H. Fowler, and N. A. Christakis, “Assortative mating at loci under recent natural selection in humans,” BioSystems, Volume 187, January 2020, 104040 (Oct 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.104040

Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras?

7 | Honduras , LIMC , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Global Health , Trellis Software

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H.B. Shakya, Weeks J., and N. A. Christakis, “Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras?,” SSM - Population Health, 9(2019): 100371 (Dec 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100371

Assortative mixing and resource inequality enhance collective welfare in sharing networks

10 | Homophily , NAC Favorite , PNAS , Social Network , Inequality , Connection Intervention , Experiment , Economics , Breadboard Software , Public Goods

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H. Shirado, G. Iosifidis, and N. A. Christakis, “Assortative mixing and resource inequality enhance collective welfare in sharing networks,” PNAS, 116(45): 22442-22444 (Oct 2019) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1911606116

Pay-it-forward gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial

7 | RCT , Sexuality , LIMC , China , Global Health , Methodology , Contagion Intervention

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Zhang TP, Yang F, Tang W, Alexander M, Forastiere L, Kumar N, Li K, Zou F, Yang L, Mi G, Wang Y, Huang W, Lee A, Zhu W, Vickerman P, Wu D, Yang B, Christakis NA, Tucker JD. Pay-it-forward gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial. Infect Dis Poverty. 2019 Aug 16;8(1):76. doi: 10.1186/s40249-019-0581-1. PMID: 31426869; PMCID: PMC6700988.

Network multipliers and public health

2 | Methodology , Social Network

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T.J. VanderWeele and N. A. Christakis, “Network multipliers and public health,” International Journal of Epidemiology, (Feb 2019) DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz010

Machine Behaviour

4 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Bots , Hybrid Systems , Nature

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I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, N. Obradovich, J. Bongard, J.F. Bonnefon, C. Breazeal, J.W. Crandall, N. A. Christakis, I.D. Couzin, M.O. Jackson, N.R. Jennings, E. Kamar, I.M. Kloumann, H. Larochelle, D. Lazer, R. McElreath, A. Mislove, D.C. Parkes, A. Pentland, M.E. Roberts, A. Shariff, J.B. Tenenbaum, and M. Wellman, “Machine Behaviour,” Nature, 568: 477-486 (Apr 2019)