Biased assimilation, homophily, and the dynamics of polarization

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

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5791-5796

  Dandekar, Pranav ^a   Goel, Ashish ^b   Lee, David T ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERNET; POLARIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACCULTURATION; ALGORITHMS; ATTITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84876046902     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217220110     Document Type: Article

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