Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5334-5338

  Fowler, James H ^a   Christakis, Nicholas A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Cooperation; Pay it forward; Public goods; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; COST; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 77950432780     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913149107     Document Type: Article

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