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The Cognitive Science of Extremist Ideologies Online
Chloe Perry, Simon DeDeo
Extremist ideologies are finding new homes in online forums. These serve as both places for true believers, and recruiting-grounds for curious newcomers. To understand how newcomer…
Lévy Flights of the Collective Imagination
William H. W. Thompson, Zachary Wojtowicz, Simon DeDeo
We present a structured random-walk model that captures key aspects of how people communicate in groups. Our model takes the form of a correlated Lévy flight that quantifies the ba…
State power and elite autonomy in a networked civil society: The board interlocking of Chinese non-profits
Ji Ma, Simon DeDeo
In response to failures of central planning, the Chinese government has experimented not only with free-market trade zones, but with allowing non-profit foundations to operate in a…
Conflict and Computation on Wikipedia: a Finite-State Machine Analysis of Editor Interactions
Simon DeDeo
What is the boundary between a vigorous argument and a breakdown of relations? What drives a group of individuals across it? Taking Wikipedia as a test case, we use a hidden Markov…
The Evolution of Wikipedia's Norm Network
Bradi Heaberlin, Simon DeDeo
Social norms have traditionally been difficult to quantify. In any particular society, their sheer number and complex interdependencies often limit a system-level analysis. One exc…
Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network
Paul L. Hooper, Simon DeDeo, Ann E. Caldwell Hooper +2
Reciprocity is a vital feature of social networks, but relatively little is known about its temporal structure or the mechanisms underlying its persistence in real world behavior.…