How Behavior Spreads by Damon Centola

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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 improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovat

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How Behavior Spreads by Damon Centola

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 improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovat
"Winner of the Harrison White Book Award, Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"
Damon Centola is professor of communication, sociology, and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and director of the Network Dynamics Group.
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ISBN 13 9780691202426
ISBN 10 0691202427
Title How Behavior Spreads
Author Damon Centola
Series Princeton Analytical Sociology Series
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 2020-03-24
Number of pages 312
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