Integrating social networks and human social motives to achieve social influence at scale

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

Volumn 111, Issue , 2014, Pages 13650-13657

  Contractor, Noshir S ^a   DeChurch, Leslie A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; NETWORK INTERVENTION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIENCE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY;

GLOBAL HEALTH; NETWORK INTERVENTION; SCIENCE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTIVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84907246298     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401211111     Document Type: Article

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