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ArticlePloS one2016

Modeling the Role of Networks and Individual Differences in Inter-Group Violence.

Alexander Isakov, Amelia Holcomb, Luke Glowacki, Nicholas A Christakis

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  5. Formation of raiding parties for intergroup violence is mediated by social network structure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander IsakovDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Amelia HolcombDepartment of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Luke GlowackiDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Nicholas A ChristakisDepartment of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Harvard University · USYale University · US

Funding

NIEHS NIH HHS 27302C0028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is significant heterogeneity within and between populations in their propensity to engage in conflict. Most research has neglected the role of within-group effects in social networks in contributing to between-group violence and focused instead on the precursors and consequences of violence, or on the role of between-group ties. Here, we explore the role of individual variation and of network structure within a population in promoting and inhibiting group violence towards other populations. Motivated by ethnographic observations of collective behavior in a small-scale society, we describe a model with differentiated roles for individuals embedded within friendship networks. Using a simple model based on voting-like dynamics, we explore several strategies for influencing group-level behavior. When we consider changing population level attitude changes and introducing control nodes separately, we find that a particularly effective control strategy relies on exploiting network degree. We also suggest refinements to our model such as tracking fine-grained information spread dynamics that can lead to further enrichment in using evolutionary game theory models for sociological phenomena.

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Models, TheoreticalSocial NetworkingViolenceHumansTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID26828362
PMCPMC4735492
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