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physics.soc-ph2026
Shifting Social Dispositions, Stable Prosocial Traits: A Global Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Human Personality
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, John A. Johnson +3
Generational stereotypes are widespread, but they often rely on anecdotes, and it remains challenging to disentangle true birth-cohort differences from the universal effects of age…
physics.soc-ph2026
Who Connects Global Aid? The Hidden Geometry of 10 Million Transactions
Paul X. McCarthy, Xian Gong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
The global aid system functions as a complex and evolving ecosystem; yet widespread understanding of its structure remains largely limited to aggregate volume flows. Here we map th…
physics.soc-ph2024
Harmony in the Australian Domain Space
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu +1
In this paper we use for the first time a systematic approach in the study of harmonic centrality at a Web domain level, and gather a number of significant new findings about the A…