Modeling Contagion Through Social Networks to Explain and Predict Gunshot Violence in Chicago, 2006 to 2014
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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8245
Abstract: Importance Every day in the United States, more than 200 people are murdered or assaulted with a firearm. Little research has considered the role of interpersonal ties in the pathways through which gun violence spreads.… read more here.
Keywords: violence; social contagion; gun violence; subjects gun ... See more keywords
Social contagion of memory and the role of self-initiated relative judgments.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103189
Abstract: Two experiments examined the role of spontaneous relative judgments within the social contagion of memory paradigm (Roediger, Meade, & Bergman, 2001). Participants viewed household scenes (for short or long durations) in collaboration with a confederate… read more here.
Keywords: social contagion; initiated relative; self initiated; contagion memory ... See more keywords
The social contagion of incremental and entity trait beliefs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.11.063
Abstract: Abstract This study examined if people's own beliefs regarding the malleability of traits is influenced by the beliefs of surrounding others. Consistent with the idea of social contagion, people who read a vignette of someone… read more here.
Keywords: social contagion; view; entity; contagion ... See more keywords
Social contagion of ethnic hostility
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720317115
Abstract: Significance We provide experimental evidence on peer effects and show that behavior that harms members of a different ethnic group is twice as contagious as behavior that harms coethnics. The findings may help to explain… read more here.
Keywords: social contagion; roma; contagion ethnic; ethnic hostility ... See more keywords
Ethnic Insults in YouTube Comments: Social Contagion and Selection Effects During the German “Refugee Crisis”
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DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaa053
Abstract: In this article, we investigate the extent to which ethnic insults propagate through comment networks in YouTube videos from four German political talk shows with the largest audience reach. We argue that comments using ethnic… read more here.
Keywords: comments social; social contagion; ethnic insults; selection ... See more keywords
Social contagion, violence, and suicide among adolescents
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DOI: 10.1097/yco.0000000000000858
Abstract: Purpose of review Social Contagion is defined as the spread of behaviors, attitudes, and affect through crowds and other types of social aggregates from one member to another. Adolescents are prone to social contagion because… read more here.
Keywords: violence suicide; social contagion; contagion violence; contagion ... See more keywords
Information diversity and anomalous scaling in asymmetric social contagion process on low-dimensional static networks.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.034307
Abstract: To understand how competition affects the diversity of information, we study the social contagion model introduced by Halvorsen-Pedersen-Sneppen (HPS) [G. S. Halvorsen, B. N. Pedersen, and K. Sneppen, Phys. Rev. E 103, 022303 (2021)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.103.022303] on… read more here.
Keywords: information; dimensional static; social contagion; diversity ... See more keywords
Social contagion with degree-dependent thresholds
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.96.012315
Abstract: We investigate opinion spreading by a threshold model in a situation in which the influence of people is heterogeneously distributed. We assume that there is a coupling between the influence of an individual (measured by… read more here.
Keywords: degree dependent; social contagion; contagion degree; dependent thresholds ... See more keywords
Social contagion of academic behavior: Comparing social networks of close friends and admired peers
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265385
Abstract: Peer relations become significant socializing agents for diverse behaviors during adolescence. This study investigated relationship selection and social influence of early adolescents’ close friends and admired peers with regard to academic behavioral engagement. A stochastic… read more here.
Keywords: close friends; contagion academic; admired peers; social contagion ... See more keywords