Beyond Contagion: Reality Mining Reveals Complex Patterns of Social Influence

Contagion, a concept from epidemiology, has long been used to characterize social influence on people’s behavior and affective (emotional) states. While it has revealed many useful insights, it is not clear whether the contagion metaphor is sufficient to fully characterize the complex dynamics of ps...

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Main Authors: Alshamsi, Aamena, Pianesi, Fabio, Lepri, Bruno, Rahwan, Iyad, Pentland, Alex Paul
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99765
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983