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Publications (11)

physics.soc-ph2018

Close and ordinary social contacts: how important are they in promoting large-scale contagion?

Peng-Bi Cui, Wei Wang, Shi-Min Cai +2

An outstanding problem of interdisciplinary interest is to understand quantitatively the role of social contacts in contagion dynamics. In general, there are two types of contacts:…

physics.soc-ph2017

Mutually cooperative epidemics on power-law networks

Peng-Bi Cui, Francesca Colaiori, Claudio Castellano

The spread of an infectious disease can, in some cases, promote the propagation of other pathogens favouring violent outbreaks, which cause a discontinuous transition to an endemic…

physics.soc-ph2025

Network localization governs social contagion dynamics with macro-level reinforcement

Leyang Xue, Kai-Cheng Yang, Peng-Bi Cui +1

The spread of ideas, behaviors, and technologies generally depends on feedback mechanisms operating across multiple scales. Previous studies have extensively examined pairwise tran…

physics.soc-ph2026

Macro-level reinforcement tunes the transition order of reversible social contagion

Guanyu Zhang, Peng-Bi Cui

Social contagion is often shaped by reinforcement: individuals become more likely to adopt a new behavior, opinion, or product as exposure accumulates or adoption becomes widely vi…

physics.soc-ph2023

Exploring the formation dynamics of affective polarization by considering a coupled feedback

Peng-Bi Cui

Polarization issue is generally subject to ideological polarization and affective polarization. In particular, affective polarization usually accelerates the polarization process a…

physics.soc-ph2023

Exploring the foundation of social diversity and coherence with a novel attraction-repulsion model framework

Peng-Bi Cui

One widely-existed state --``harmony with diversity" in which individuals freely express various viewpoints to sustain integration of social diversity, but at the same time shared…

physics.soc-ph2022

Network localization strength regulates innovation diffusion with macro-level social influence

Leyang Xue, Kai-Cheng Yang, Peng-Bi Cui +1

Innovation diffusion in the networked population is an essential process that drives the progress of human society. Despite the recent advances in network science, a fundamental un…

physics.soc-ph2023

Identifying the structure patterns to govern the performance of localization in regulating innovation diffusion

Leyang Xue, Peng-Bi Cui, Zengru Di

The macro social influence is recognized as a non-negligible ingredient in innovation propagation: more adopters in the network lead to a higher adoption tendency for the rest indi…

physics.soc-ph2018

Effect of network clustering on mutually cooperative coinfections

Peng-Bi Cui, Francesca Colaiori, Claudio Castellano

The spread of an infectious disease can be promoted by previous infections with other pathogens. This cooperative effect can give rise to violent outbreaks, reflecting the presence…

physics.soc-ph2017

Epidemic spreading dynamics with drug-resistant and heterogeneous contacts

Peng-Bi Cui, Lei Gao, Wei Wang

Drug resistance and strong contacts actually play crucial roles in epidemic spread in complex systems. Nevertheless, neither theoretical model or methodology is proposed to address…

physics.soc-ph2018

Small world yields optimal public goods in presence of both altruistic and selfish cooperators

Peng-Bi Cui, Zhi-Xi Wu, Tao Zhou

Empirical studies have shown that individuals' behaviors are largely influenced by social conformity, including punishment. However, a coevolutionary theoretical framework that tak…