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Bringing Leaders of Network Sub-Groups Closer Together Does Not Facilitate Consensus
Matthew I. Jones, Nicholas A. Christakis
Consensus formation is a complex process, particularly in networked groups. When individuals are incentivized to dig in and refuse to compromise, leaders may be essential to guidin…
Antidepressant use and spatial social capital
Balazs Lengyel, Gergo Toth, Nicholas A. Christakis +1
Social capital may help individuals maintain their mental health. Most empirical work based on small-scale surveys finds that bonding social capital and cohesive social networks ar…
It Is Easy For Multi-Issue Bundles To Advance Anti-Democratic Agendas
Matthew I. Jones, Matthew Chervenak, Nicholas A. Christakis
When confronted with a host of issues, groups often save time and energy by compiling many issues into a single bundle when making decisions. This reduces the time and cost of grou…
Spread of pathogens in the patient transfer network of US hospitals
Juan Fernández Gracia, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Michael L. Barnett +2
Emergent antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are an increasingly significant source of morbidity and mortality. Antibiotic-resistant organisms have a natural reservoir in hos…
Spreading paths in partially observed social networks
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Nicholas A. Christakis
Understanding how and how far information, behaviors, or pathogens spread in social networks is an important problem, having implications for both predicting the size of epidemics,…
Geographic constraints on social network groups
Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Samuel Arbesman, Marta C. González +2
Social groups are fundamental building blocks of human societies. While our social interactions have always been constrained by geography, it has been impossible, due to practical…