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Network Ecology of Marriage
Tamas David-Barrett
The practice of marriage is an understudied phenomenon in behavioural sciences despite being ubiquitous across human cultures. This modelling paper shows that replacing distant dir…
Collaboration Conundrum: Synchrony-Cooperation Trade-off
Tamas David-Barrett
In large groups, every collaborative act requires balancing two pressures: the need to achieve behavioural synchrony and the need to keep free riding to a minimum. This paper intro…
Unbiased Library of k-regular, n-sized, Connected, Small Graphs
Tamas David-Barrett
The past decade highlighted the usefulness of social network simulations that run on k-regular, n-size, connected graphs. These can be seen as small-scale models of human social ne…
Kinship Is a Network Tracking Social Technology, Not an Evolutionary Phenomenon
Tamas David-Barrett
On one hand, kinship is a universal human phenomenon that tends to align with biological relatedness, which might suggest evolutionary foundations. On the other hand, kinship has e…
World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality
Tamas David-Barrett
One of the most contested questions about human behaviour is whether there are inherent sex or gender differences in the formation and maintenance of social bonds. On one hand, fem…
Clustering Drives Cooperation on Reputation Networks, All Else Fixed
Tamas David-Barrett
Reputation-based cooperation on social networks offers a causal mechanism between graph properties and social trust. Recent papers on the `structural microfoundations` of the socie…
Peer relations with mobile phone data: Best friends and family formation
Tamas David-Barrett, Anna Rotkirch, Asim Ghosh +5
Earlier attempts to investigate the changes of the role of friendship in different life stages have failed due to lack of data. We close this gap by using a large data set of mobil…
Communication with family and friends across the life course
Tamas David-Barrett, Janos Kertesz, Anna Rotkirch +4
Each stage of the human life course is characterized by a distinctive pattern of social relations. We study how the intensity and importance of the closest social contacts vary acr…