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How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions

How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions

Paperback

Series: Princeton Analytical Sociology, Book 3

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0691202427
ISBN13: 9780691202426
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Mar 24 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behavior

New social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned from the viral diffusion of diseases improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? How Behavior Spreads presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior--in voting, health, technology, and finance--occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate. Damon Centola's startling findings show that the same conditions that accelerate the viral expansion of an epidemic unexpectedly inhibit the spread of behaviors. How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for anyone interested in how the theory of social networks can transform our world.

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