How cooperation spreads in social networks

Nicholas Christakis

In a paper recently published in the PNAS, Sci Gen researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler found that members of social networks are influenced by fellow group members’ contribution behavior in future interactions with others who were not involved in the initial interaction. To find out more about cooperation contagion read,  “Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks.”

 

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