Reconciling long-term cultural diversity and short-term collective social behavior

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

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1068-1073

  Valori, Luca ^a   Picciolo, Francesco ^a   Allansdottir, Agnes ^a   Garlaschelli, Diego ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective social phenomena; Homophily; Social influence; Sociophysics; Ultrametricity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GEOLOGICAL TIME; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPACE;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856397793     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109514109     Document Type: Article

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