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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)

The Structure of Negative Ties in Rural Village Networks

10 | Methodology , Antagonistic Networks , Honduras , LIMC , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Global Health , Trellis Software , Friendship , NAC Favorite

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A. Isakov, J.H. Fowler, E. Airoldi, and N. A. Christakis, “The Structure of Negative Ties in Rural Village Networks,” Sociological Science, Vol. 6, p197-218 (Mar 2019) DOI: 10.15195/v6.a8

Resource sharing in technologically defined social networks

6 | Experiment , Breadboard Software , Social Network , Connection Intervention , Economics , Public Goods

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H. Shirado, G. Iosifidis, L. Tassiulas, and N. A. Christakis, “Resource sharing in technologically defined social networks,” Nature Communications, (Feb 2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41467·019·0893S-2

Surgeon peer network characteristics and adoption of new imaging techniques in breast cancer: A study of perioperative MRI

4 | Cancer , Physician Network , Social Contagion , Health Services Research

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S. Tannenbaum, P. R. Soulos, J. Herrin, C. E. Pollack, X. Xu, N. A. Christakis, H. P. Forman, J. B. Yu, B. K. Killelea, S. Y. Wang, and C. P. Gross, “Surgeon peer network characteristics and adoption of new imaging techniques in breast cancer: A study of perioperative MRI,” Cancer Medicine, 7(12): 5901-5909 (Dec 2018) DOI: 10.1002/cam4.1821