Periodicals>Journal Article: Lerman, Yan, Wu , Majority Illusion in Social Networks, Retrieved on 2016-09-02Source Material [arxiv.org]
Folksonomies: cognitive bias Memes
02 SEP 2016
The Majority Illusion in Social Networks
Social behaviors are often contagious, spreading through a population as individuals imitate the decisions and choices of others. A variety of global phenomena, from innovation adoption to the emergence of social norms and political movements, arise as a result of people following a simple local rule, such as copy what others are doing. However, individuals often lack global knowledge of the behaviors of others and must estimate them from the observations of their friends' behaviors. In some ...Folksonomies: cognitive bias
Folksonomies: cognitive bias