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

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 fi...

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Main Authors: Almaatouq, Abdullah (Contributor), Radaelli, Laura (Contributor), Pentland, Alex Paul (Contributor), Shmueli, Erez (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Computational Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computation for Design and Optimization Program (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2017-05-05T23:27:50Z.
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