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The how of social capital
Social capital is a powerful resource for individuals and communities. For individuals embedded in dense social networks, these networks and the attendant norms of trust and reciprocity strongly shape individuals’ ability to land jobs, earn higher salaries, and be happier … Continue reading
Posted in back pain, binge drinking, collective action, community norms, connected, contagion, culture, depression, drinking, emergent properties, emotion, emotions, evolution, evolutionary biology, happiness, homophily, imitation, information, james fowler, loneliness, network, network effects, networks, nicholas christakis, norms, obesity, peer pressure, politics, reputation, social capital, social norms, STDs, Three Degrees of Influence, trust, trustworthy
Tagged back pain, binge drinking, collective action, community norms, connected, contagion, culture, depression, drinking, emergent properties, emotion, emotions, evolution, evolutionary biology, happiness, homophily, imitation, information, james fowler, loneliness, network, network effects, networks, nicholas christakis, norms, obesity, peer pressure, politics, reputation, social capital, social norms, STDs, Three Degrees of Influence, trust, trustworthy
The Friendship Paradox: using social networks to predict spread of epidemics
Nick Christakis and James Fowler (whose research we’ve previously highlighted) is back with research that shows how one can easily use “sensors” in a network to track and get early warning regarding the spread of epidemics. They took advantage of … Continue reading
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Tagged community norms, connected, connectors, contagion, diffusion, digital information, epidemics, epidemiology, flu, friends, friendship paradox, immunization, information, james fowler, malcolm gladwell, networks, nicholas christakis, nick christakis, PLoS One, relevance, relevant, social, social capital, social network, social networking, social networks, social norm, social norms, spread, TED, tipping point, trends
Social Capital Nudges [UPDATED 3/27/13]
In Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler‘s wonderful book Nudge (2008), they note that individuals’ choices can be influenced by countless factors that people are unaware of (where food is positioned in a cafeteria or a grocery store, what the default … Continue reading
Posted in Cass Sunstein, choice architects, commitments, Give More Tomorrow, Google Mail Goggles, libertarian paternalism, nudge, Opower, Richard Thaler, social capital, social norming, Tina Rosenberg
Tagged Cass Sunstein, choice architects, commitments, Give More Tomorrow, Google Mail Goggles, libertarian paternalism, nudge, Richard Thaler, social capital, social norming, Tina Rosenberg
Are contagiousness studies contagious?
Slate has a nice post highlighting the whole history of contagiousness research and putting Christakis’ and Fowler’s recent work in a broader perspective. Most of these prior works they cite were not based on mapping people’s social networks, although some … Continue reading
You in? (UPDATED 4/12/12)
Yahoo is trying to spark random acts of kindness around the world through the 600 million people who are part of the Yahoo “community.” They ask people to visit kindness.yahoo.com and post online status messages describing their good deeds, inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in altruism, connected, facebook, Giving Game, internet, james fowler, myspace, nicholas christakis, pay it forward, random acts of kindness, reciprocity, serial reciprocity, twitter, yahoo, You In?
Tagged altruism, connected, facebook, Giving Game, internet, james fowler, myspace, nicholas christakis, pay it forward, random acts of kindness, reciprocity, serial reciprocity, twitter, yahoo, You In?
Tough days for the weight-challenged
Nick Christakis and James Fowler been pressing the argument that obesity is contagious through social networks in their new book Connected. [Great recent short interview of co-author James Fowler on Colbert, a distillation of this book in the Prospect’s “Let’s … Continue reading
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Tagged "the fat man", Chris Wilson, contagion, iraq, nicholas christakis, obesity, saddam hussein, slate magazine, social networks
Loneliness contagious? An oxymoron? (UPDATED 5/2013)
It seems contradictory. How can the lonely (who are largely outside of social networks) get their loneliness through social networks? It makes sense when you think of people’s movements in social networks over some period of time. The lonely may … Continue reading
Posted in contagion, framingham heart study, harvard, james fowler, John Cacioppo, Judith Shulevitz, loneliness, New Republic, nick christakis, social networks, The Science of Loneliness, UCSD, university of chicago, washington post
Tagged contagion, framingham heart study, harvard, james fowler, John Cacioppo, Judith Shulevitz, loneliness, New Republic, nick christakis, social networks, the science of loneliness, UCSD, university of chicago, washington post
Sarkozy’s blue-chip Commission recommends measuring social capital
French President Nicholas Sarkozy, convinced that GDP was not properly measuring French citizens’ well-being, appointed a 25-member blue-chip commission (chaired by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and largely composed of the world’s best economists, including 4 other Nobel Laureates) to advise … Continue reading
Posted in economics, economist, France, gallup, GDP, happiness, Joseph Stiglitz, measurement, Measuring What Matters, Nicholas Sarkozy, Nobel Prize, political engagement, political voice, robert putnam, social capital, social indicators, Subjective Well-being, wealth, well-being
Tagged economics, economist, France, gallup, GDP, happiness, Joseph Stiglitz, measurement, Measuring What Matters, Nicholas Sarkozy, Nobel Prize, political engagement, political voice, robert putnam, social capital, social indicators, Subjective Well-being, wealth, well-being
Our genes influence our social networks
If you don’t have enough friends or aren’t the social butterfly of your class, now you can blame your genes. Nick Christakis (Harvard Medical School) and James Fowler (UCSD political scientist) are back with more controversial findings suggesting some genetic … Continue reading
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