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Simple Autonomous Agents Can Enhance Creative Discovery in Human Groups

11 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Bots , Breadboard Software , Contagion Intervention , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Methodology , NAC Favorite , Online Network , Social Contagion , Social Network

Citation:

Ueshima A, Jones MI, Christakis NA. Simple autonomous agents can enhance creative semantic discovery by human groups. Nature Communications. 2024 Jun 18;15(1):5212. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49528-y. PMID: 38890368; PMCID: PMC11189566.

Maternal and Child Health Interventions to Promote Behavior Change: A Population-Level Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Honduras

9 | Experiment , Global Health , Honduras , LIMC , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Methodology , RCT , Social Network , Trellis Software

Citation:

Oles W, Alexander M, Negron R, et al. Maternal and child health intervention to promote behaviour change: a population-level cluster-randomised controlled trial in Honduras. BMJ Open 2024;14:e060784. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-060784

Induction of Social Contagion Across Diverse Outcomes in Structured Experiments in Isolated Honduras Villages (Science, 2024)

9 | Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , Experiment , Network Targeting , Contagion Intervention , Breadboard Software , Global Health , LIMC , Social Contagion , Social Network

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Airoldi EM, Christakis NA. Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages. Science. 2024 May 3;384(6695):eadi5147. doi: 10.1126/science.adi5147. Epub 2024 May 3. PMID: 38696582.

Status invisibility alleviates the economic gradient in happiness in social network experiments

10 | Experiment , Breadboard Software , Inequality , Economics , Mental Health , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , NAC Favorite , Social Contagion , Contagion Intervention

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Nishi, A., German, C.A., Iwamoto, S.K. et al. Status invisibility alleviates the economic gradient in happiness in social network experiments. Nat. Mental Health 1, 990–1000 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00159-0

Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India (PNAS, 2022)

15 | Methodology , NAC Favorite , PNAS , India , Contagion Intervention , Experiment , Global Health , Social Contagion , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Maternal and Child Health (MNCH) , LIMC , RCT , Trellis Software , Network Targeting

Citation:

M. Alexander, L. Forastiere, N. A. Christakis, and S. Gupta, “Algorithms for seeding social networks can enhance the adoption of a public health intervention in urban India,” PNAS, 119(30) e2120742119 (May 2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120742119

Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups

11 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Connection Intervention , Cooperation , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , NAC Favorite , Bots , Breadboard Software , Public Goods

Citation:

H. Shirado and N. A. Christakis, “Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups,” iScience, 23(9) (Aug 2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101438

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

Citation:

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

Citation:

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

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

Citation:

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

Resource sharing in technologically defined social networks

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

Citation:

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

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