The effect of social balance on social fragmentation

T Minh Pham, I Kondor, R Hanel… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
With the availability of internet, social media, etc., the interconnectedness of people within
most societies has increased tremendously over the past decades. Across the same …

Empirical social triad statistics can be explained with dyadic homophylic interactions

TM Pham, J Korbel, R Hanel… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The remarkable robustness of many social systems has been associated with a peculiar
triangular structure in the underlying social networks. Triples of people that have three …

Homophily-based social group formation in a spin glass self-assembly framework

J Korbel, SD Lindner, TM Pham, R Hanel, S Thurner - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Homophily, the tendency of humans to attract each other when sharing similar features,
traits, or opinions, has been identified as one of the main driving forces behind the formation …

Balance and fragmentation in societies with homophily and social balance

TM Pham, AC Alexander, J Korbel, R Hanel… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation on the basis of spin models
include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily—the tendency for people …

Epidemic spreading on evolving signed networks

M Saeedian, N Azimi-Tafreshi, GR Jafari, J Kertesz - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Most studies of disease spreading consider the underlying social network as obtained
without the contagion, though epidemic influences people's willingness to contact others: A …

Network structural balance based on evolutionary multiobjective optimization: A two-step approach

Q Cai, M Gong, S Ruan, Q Miao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research on network structural balance has been of great concern to scholars from diverse
fields. In this paper, a two-step approach is proposed for the first time to address the network …

Modelling co-evolution of resource feedback and social network dynamics in human-environmental systems

M Saeedian, C Tu, F Menegazzo… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Games with environmental feedback have become a crucial area of study across various
scientific domains, modelling the dynamic interplay between human decisions and …

Absorbing phase transition in the coupled dynamics of node and link states in random networks

M Saeedian, M San Miguel, R Toral - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We present a stochastic dynamics model of coupled evolution for the binary states of nodes
and links in a complex network. In the context of opinion formation node states represent two …

A general model for how attributes can reduce polarization in social groups

PJ Górski, C Atkisson, JA Hołyst - Network Science, 2023 - cambridge.org
Polarization makes it difficult to form positive relationships across existing groups.
Decreasing polarization may improve political discourse around the world. Polarization can …

Heider and coevolutionary balance: From discrete to continuous phase transition

A Kargaran, GR Jafari - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Structural balance in social complex networks has been modeled with two types of triplet
interactions. First is the interaction that only considers the dynamic role for links or …