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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Centola, Damon author.     Subjects     Human behavior.     Social networks.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Centola, Damon author.       by title:      How behavior spreads...         MARC Display

How behavior spreads : the science of complex contagions / Damon Centola. by Centola, Damon author. Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018] Subjects Human behavior.   Social networks. ISBN:  9780691175317 (hardcover) 0691175314 (hardcover) Series:  Princeton analytical sociology series. Description:  x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 be used to improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? In How Behavior Spreads, Damon Centola 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. Centola's startling findings show that the same conditions accelerating the viral expansion of an epidemic unexpectedly inhibit the spread of behaviors. While it is commonly believed that "weak ties"--long-distance connections linking acquaintances--lead to the quicker spread of behaviors, in fact the exact opposite holds true. Centola demonstrates how the most well-known, intuitive ideas about social networks have caused past diffusion efforts to fail, and how such efforts might succeed in the future. Pioneering the use of Web-based methods to understand how changes in people's social networks alter their behaviors, Centola illustrates the ways in which these insights can be applied to solve countless problems of organizational change, cultural evolution, and social innovation. His findings offer important lessons for public health workers, entrepreneurs, and activists looking to harness networks for social change.Practical and informative, How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for anyone interested in how the theory of social networks can transform our world"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 302 Ce Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 302 Ce Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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