Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? Social networking is taking over our society today, so much so that scientists believe even health behaviors are being affected, too.Researchers believe that living in a network with close contact with people a person knows well and trusts affects his/her health behaviors. Redundancy is the key to change, when a person hears about the same idea multiple times they seem to change their habits to try out this new idea, and we see this redundancy happening most within dense clusters of connections.?For about 35 years, wisdom in the social sciences has been that the more long ties there are in a network, the faster a thing will spread,? Damon Centola, an assistant professor at the MIT School of Management was quoted as saying. ?It?s starting to see that this is not always the case.?To observe the differences social networks make Centola ran a series of experiments using na internet-based health community he developed. There were 1,528 people in the study and they all had anonymous profiles an
Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
Unlike infectious diseases and news, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from Wired Science
Social networks influence health behaviors: study (w/ Video)
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
MIT researcher finds that social networks influence health behaviors, Thu 2 Sep 10 from e! Science News
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Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks
We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether it’s online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. ...
Thu 9 Sep 10 from Ars Technica
Groups of friends key to changing health behaviors
CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to changing health behaviors, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, U.S. researchers said on ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from Reuters
Proximity Affects Influence of Online 'Health Buddies'
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to online social networking, people are more likely to change habits that might affect their health when encouraged to do so by cyber ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from Health News
Health Behaviors Influenced By Social Networking
(Ivanhoe Newswire) ? Social networking is taking over our society today, so much so that scientists believe even health behaviors are being affected, too.Researchers believe that living in a ...
Tue 7 Sep 10 from RedOrbit
Social networks influence health behaviors
Individuals are more likely to acquire new health practices while living in networks with dense clusters of connections -- that is, when in close contact with people they already know well.
Thu 2 Sep 10 from ScienceDaily
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