Dynamical signatures of collective quality grading in a social activity: attendance to motion pictures.

We investigate the laws governing people's decisions and interactions by studying the collective dynamics of a well-documented social activity for which there exist ample records of the perceived quality: the attendance to movie theaters in the US. We picture the flows of attendance as impulses...

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Main Authors: Juan V Escobar, Didier Sornette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4303319?pdf=render