How to ask for a favor: A case study on the success of altruistic requests

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 12-21

  Althoff, Tim ^a   Danescu Niculescu Mizil, Cristian ^b   Jurafsky, Dan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909954360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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