Beyond contagion: Reality mining reveals complex patterns of social influence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Alshamsi, Aamena ^a   Pianesi, Fabio ^b   Lepri, Bruno ^b,c   Pentland, Alex ^c   Rahwan, Iyad ^a,c  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EGO; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AFFECT; EMOTION; HUMAN RELATION; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFFECT; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84943279939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135740     Document Type: Article

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