Anthropogenic carbon emissions have the potential to trigger changes in climate and
ecosystems that would be catastrophic for the well-being of humans and other species …

Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

Social capital—the strength of an individual's social network and community—has been
identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health …

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness
of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a variety of complex systems …

Technological advances have resulted in a hyperconnected world, requiring a
reassessment of branding research from the perspectives of firms, consumers, and society …

Conservation scientists increasingly seek to find ways to implement their research for
improved policy and practice. However, such efforts may be ineffective, or even …

Models of population-wide cultural change tend to invoke one of two broad models of
individual change. One approach theorizes people actively updating their beliefs and …

We provide an overview of the relationship between financial networks and systemic risk.
We present a taxonomy of different types of systemic risk, differentiating between direct …

The propagations of diseases, behaviors and information in real systems are rarely
independent of each other, but they are coevolving with strong interactions. To uncover the …

The standard measure of distance in social networks–average shortest path length–
assumes a model of “simple” contagion, in which people only need exposure to influence …