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Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks
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...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22039524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026652 |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-31987952011-10-28 Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks Hock, Karlo Fefferman, Nina H. PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2011-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3198795/ /pubmed/22039524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026652 Text en Hock, Fefferman. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hock, Karlo Fefferman, Nina H. Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title | Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title_full | Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title_fullStr | Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title_full_unstemmed | Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title_short | Violating Social Norms when Choosing Friends: How Rule-Breakers Affect Social Networks |
title_sort | violating social norms when choosing friends: how rule-breakers affect social networks |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22039524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026652 |
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