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most citedSaving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute

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physics.soc-ph2017★ 160 cited

Homophily and minority size explain perception biases in social networks

Eun Lee, Fariba Karimi, Claudia Wagner +3

People's perceptions about the size of minority groups in social networks can be biased, often showing systematic over- or underestimation. These social perception biases are often…

physics.soc-ph2017

From equality to diversity -- bottom-up approach for hierarchy growth

Agnieszka Czaplicka, Janusz A. Hołyst

The hierarchical topology is a common property of many complex systems. Here we introduce a simple but generic model of hierarchy growth from the bottom to the top. Therein, two dy…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 60 cited

Reach and speed of judgment propagation in the laboratory

Mehdi Moussaid, Stefan Herzog, Juliane Kammer +1

In recent years, a large body of research has demonstrated that judgments and behaviors can propagate from person to person. Phenomena as diverse as political mobilization, health…

cs.AI2017★ 3 cited

Diversity of preferences can increase collective welfare in sequential exploration problems

Pantelis P. Analytis, Hrvoje Stojic, Alexandros Gelastopoulos +1

In search engines, online marketplaces and other human-computer interfaces large collectives of individuals sequentially interact with numerous alternatives of varying quality. In…

physics.soc-ph2017★ 1 cited

Can simple transmission chains foster collective intelligence in binary-choice tasks?

Mehdi Moussaid, Kyanoush Seyed Yahosseini

In many social systems, groups of individuals can find remarkably efficient solutions to complex cognitive problems, sometimes even outperforming a single expert. The success of th…