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cs.SI2016
The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you
Johan Bollen, Bruno Gonçalves, Ingrid van de Leemput +1
Most individuals in social networks experience a so-called Friendship Paradox: they are less popular than their friends on average. This effect may explain recent findings that wid…
cs.SI2011★ 268 cited
Happiness is assortative in online social networks
Johan Bollen, Bruno Goncalves, Guangchen Ruan +1
Social networks tend to disproportionally favor connections between individuals with either similar or dissimilar characteristics. This propensity, referred to as assortative mixin…