Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which individuals can influence the behavior of each other. Moreover, we find that pe...

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Main Authors: Almaatouq, Abdullah, Radaelli, Laura, Pentland, Alex Paul, Shmueli, Erez
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108718
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-9123
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-2994