When my country is at war: Issue importance and interpersonal influence lead Iraq War attitudes to cluster within social networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry G. Cullum ◽  
Bradley M. Okdie ◽  
Helen C. Harton
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Interpersonal Influence ◽  
Issue Importance

scholarly journals A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Strategic Belief Revelation with Social Influence

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 13734-13735
Author(s):  
Patrick Shepherd ◽  
Judy Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Interpersonal Influence ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Opinion Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Interest

The study of social networks has increased rapidly in the past few decades. Of recent interest are the dynamics of changing opinions over a network. Some research has investigated how interpersonal influence can affect opinion change, how to maximize/minimize the spread of opinion change over a network, and recently, if/how agents can act strategically to effect some outcome in the network's opinion distribution. This latter problem can be modeled and addressed as a reinforcement learning problem; we introduce an approach to help network agents find strategies that outperform hand-crafted policies. Our preliminary results show that our approach is promising in networks with dynamic topologies.

Multilayer Social Networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Dickison ◽  
Matteo Magnani ◽  
Luca Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Multilayer Social Networks

Hostility and Perceptions of Support in Ambiguous Social Interactions

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Vranceanu ◽  
Linda C. Gallo ◽  
Laura M. Bogart
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Information Processing ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Processing Bias ◽  
Information Processing Bias

The present study investigated whether a social information processing bias contributes to the inverse association between trait hostility and perceived social support. A sample of 104 undergraduates (50 men) completed a measure of hostility and rated videotaped interactions in which a speaker disclosed a problem while a listener reacted ambiguously. Results showed that hostile persons rated listeners as less friendly and socially supportive across six conversations, although the nature of the hostility effect varied by sex, target rated, and manner in which support was assessed. Hostility and target interactively impacted ratings of support and affiliation only for men. At least in part, a social information processing bias could contribute to hostile persons' perceptions of their social networks.

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