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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

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

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

Citation:

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

Citation:

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

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

The Structure of Negative Ties in Rural Village Networks

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

Citation:

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

Cyclic motifs in the Sardex monetary network

6 | Methodology , Institutional Network , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Economics , NAC Favorite

Citation:

G. Iosifidis, Y. Charette, E. Airoldi, G. Littera, L. Tassiulas, and N. A. Christakis, “Cyclic motifs in the Sardex monetary network,” Nature Human Behavior, (Oct 2018) DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0450-0

Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments (Nature, 2017)

13 | Methodology , Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Biological Network , Behavior Genetics , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Bots , NAC Favorite , Nature , Breadboard Software , Experiment , Hybrid Systems , Public Goods

Citation:

H. Shirado and N.A. Christakis, "Locally Noisy Autonomous Agents Improve Global Human Coordination in Network Experiments" Nature, 545, 370–374 (18 May 2017) doi:10.1038/nature22332

Dueling Biological and Social Contagions

7 | Social Contagion , NAC Favorite , Social Network , Epidemic Disease , Infectious Disease , Vaccination , Sociocentric Network

Citation:

F. Fu, N.A. Christakis, and J.H. Fowler, "Dueling Biological and Social Contagions" Scientific Reports, (March 2017); 7: 43643 DOI: 10.1038/srep43634

Formation of Raiding Parties for Inter-Group Violence is Mediated by Social Network Structure

9 | Evolutionary Biology , LMIC , NAC Favorite , PNAS , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , Indigenous Social Network , Friendship , Violence

Citation:

L. Glowacki, A. Isakov, R. W. Wrangham, R. McDermott, J. H. Fowler, and N. A. Christakis, "Formation of Raiding Parties for Inter-Group Violence is Mediated by Social Network Structure" PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Oct 25;113(43):12114-12119. 10.1073/pnas.1610961113

Social Connectedness Is Associated with Fibrinogen Level in a Human Social Network

5 | Biomarker , Social Network , Sociocentric Network , NAC Favorite , Evolutionary Biology

Citation:

D.A. Kim, E. Benjamin, J.H. Fowler, and N.A. Christakis, "Social Connectedness Is Associated with Fibrinogen Level in a Human Social Network" Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283: 20160958 (August 2016) doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0958

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