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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"social contagion"”.
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Interdependent diffusion : the social contagion of interacting beliefs
A common simplifying assumption in theories of social contagion is that ideas or beliefs spread from person to person in a social network without regard to other ideas or beliefs that spread concurrently. This assumption is both useful and generative, as it allows researchers to produce tractable …
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An agent-based simulation study of the social contagion of divorce
… diseases is used for the simulation of the social contagion of divorce in this work. First, two simple SIR and SIRa models are implemented and the results of their simulation outcomes analyzed. Then, using machine learning classification models to predict the probability that each couple has …
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Development of Person-Person Network and Interacting PTTS in EpiSimdemics
Communications over social media, telephone, email, text etc have emerged as an integral part of modern society and they are popularly used for the expression of anger, anxiety, fear, agitation and opinion by the people. People's social interaction tend to increase dramatically during periods of …
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The Identification of Housing Bubbles in the U.S. and China and Lessons for Avoiding Them
… of momentum housing bubble resulted from the social contagion of herd thinking, and suggests ways to improve financial infrastructure to solve future problems.
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Understanding and Reshaping Social Networks with Advanced Computational Techniques
Social networks are powerful in modeling interdependence among individuals. Recently, the availability of large-scale social network data and advances in computational tools have facilitated the rapid development in social network research. However, a few important aspects of social networks have …
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How network structure impacts socially reinforced diffusion?
Social scientists have long studied adoption choices that depend on the number of prior adopters. What is the effect of network structure on such adoption dynamics? The emerging consensus holds that when agents require a high reinforcement threshold for adoption, clustered networks are better …
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Rural Teachers’ Perceptions Of School Principals’ Leadership Behaviors Affecting Motivation To Improve Professional Practice.
… and teachers being a powerful force of social change is a well-established argument. While literature confirms the substantial impact school leaders and teachers have on improving organizations and student outcomes, there is a dearth of granular knowledge related to how rural school …
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Why meaning matters for belief diffusion in social networks
… reasoning and pseudoscience. Recent research in social contagion shows that the tendency to treat new information in light of what is already known creates interdependence in the diffusion patterns of simultaneously diffusing beliefs, and that this is sufficient to generate societal polarization …
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Implementation and effectiveness of the ISO 9001 quality management system in the construction sector in the UK and Ireland
… administrative burden imposed by QMS paperwork, social contagion of a culture of fudging, the unlikelihood that deception will be detected in an audit and the lack of penalty for deception. The picture of compliance is complex and continually evolving.<br/><br/>The study concludes with …
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Online Social Networks News Spreading: Modeling and Data Analysis
The enormous use of social networks in the dissemination of information has made these platforms famous for rumors spreading, but, unlike traditional channels, news is free to propagate without control, so it is of primary importance to understand what are the factors that induce users to propagate …
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Modeling and Twitter-based Surveillance of Smoking Contagion
… to control. Despite the known importance of social networks in the smoking epidemic, there has been no network-centric intervention available for controlling the smoking epidemic yet. The long-term goal of this work is the development and implementation of an environment needed for developing …
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Examining Relationships between Online Financial Message Board Interactions and Trading Activity of Securities Listed on the AIM Submarket of the London Stock Exchange
… online message boards result in a potential for social networks to amplify the effects of behavioural biases (Zhang, 2014; Russ, 2007). However, previous studies on the informational content of message board postings, and the power of online communications in predicting abnormal returns and …
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Essays on the dynamics of alternative fuel vehicle adoption : insights from the market for hybrid-electric vehicles in the United States
… to explain the emergence of these clusters: 1) contagion through consumers' social networks; and 2) market heterogeneity that influences consumers' adoption thresholds. I develop a model of spatial innovation diffusion that captures spatial information generation between regions and consumer …
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The diffusion of innovations in the presence of geography and media
… generated from rapidly expanding online social networks, revealing the beautiful and often surprising complexity of everyday human behavior. We are able to harness data from millions of cell phone users to better understand how people move through cities, use roads, and interact with …
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Enhancing methods for modeling and estimation of complex socio-technical systems
… simulation models of complex dynamic systems in social sciences and to enhance the use of quantitative data in the estimation of model structure and parameters. The data available to social scientists developing models of complex systems are often severely limited and suffer from substantial …
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Decisions Dynamics in ICT systems: the influence of a context-aware and social approach on the multiple criteria decision making processes
… more complicated considering the concepts of social networking. In fact, taking into consideration the mechanism of social influence and social contagion as well as the capability and knowledge of each individual, the network node is affected, in a positive or in a negative way, not only by …
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The periodically-observed time-homogeneous Poisson process, with applications in violence and loss
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms