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| Title |
Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0026652 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karlo Hock, Nina H. Fefferman |
| Abstract |
Social networks rely on basic rules of conduct to yield functioning societies in both human and animal populations. As individuals follow established rules, their behavioral decisions shape the social network and give it structure. Using dynamic, self-organizing social network models we demonstrate that defying conventions in a social system can affect multiple levels of social and organizational success independently. Such actions primarily affect actors' own positions within the network, but individuals can also affect the overall structure of a network even without immediately affecting themselves or others. These results indicate that defying the established social norms can help individuals to change the properties of a social system via seemingly neutral behaviors, highlighting the power of rule-breaking behavior to transform convention-based societies, even before direct impacts on individuals can be measured. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Unknown | 4 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 57 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 14% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Researcher | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 19 | 33% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 26% |
| Psychology | 6 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 26% |
| Unknown | 10 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 January 2012.
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#6,292,247
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#75,529
of 193,429 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,599
of 139,967 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#825
of 2,586 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,655,397 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
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