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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Computational Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computation for Design and Optimization Program
dc.contributor Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
dc.contributor Almaatouq, Abdullah
dc.contributor Radaelli, Laura
dc.contributor Pentland, Alex Paul
dc.contributor Shmueli, Erez
dc.creator Almaatouq, Abdullah
dc.creator Radaelli, Laura
dc.creator Pentland, Alex Paul
dc.creator Shmueli, Erez
dc.date 2017-05-05T23:27:50Z
dc.date 2017-05-05T23:27:50Z
dc.date 2016-03
dc.date 2015-11
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:10:54Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:10:54Z
dc.identifier 1932-6203
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108718
dc.identifier Almaatouq, Abdullah, Laura Radaelli, Alex Pentland, and Erez Shmueli. “Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change.” Edited by Zi-Ke Zhang. PLoS ONE 11, no. 3 (March 22, 2016): e0151588.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-9123
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-9983
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-2994
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279057
dc.description Persuasion is at the core of norm creation, emergence of collective action, and solutions to ‘tragedy of the commons’ problems. In this paper, we show that the directionality of friendship ties affect the extent to which individuals can influence the behavior of each other. Moreover, we find that people are typically poor at perceiving the directionality of their friendship ties and that this can significantly limit their ability to engage in cooperative arrangements. This could lead to failures in establishing compatible norms, acting together, finding compromise solutions, and persuading others to act. We then suggest strategies to overcome this limitation by using two topological characteristics of the perceived friendship network. The findings of this paper have significant consequences for designing interventions that seek to harness social influence for collective action.
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151588
dc.relation PLoS ONE
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source Public Library of Science
dc.title Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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