Social influence bias: A randomized experiment

Science

Volumn 341, Issue 6146, 2013, Pages 647-651

  Muchnik, Lev ^a   Aral, Sinan ^b   Taylor, Sean J ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; FRIEND; FRIENDSHIP; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIETY;

EID: 84881262309     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1240466     Document Type: Article

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