Belief change and spread have been studied in many disciplines—from psychology,
sociology, economics and philosophy, to biology, computer science and statistical physics …

We consider signed networks in which connections or edges can be either positive
(friendship, trust, alliance) or negative (dislike, distrust, conflict). Early literature in graph …

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 …

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 …

Stability of the brain functional network is directly linked to organization of synchronous and
anti-synchronous activities. Nevertheless, impact of arrangement of positive and negative …

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 …

The abundance of data about social relationships allows the human behavior to be
analyzed as any other natural phenomenon. Here we focus on balance theory, stating that …

Homophily between agents and structural balance in connected triads of agents are
complementary mechanisms thought to shape social groups leading to, for instance …

What makes a network complex, in addition to its size, is the interconnected interactions
between elements, disruption of which inevitably results in dysfunction. Likewise, the brain …

Balance theory explains how network structural configurations relate to tension in social
systems, which are commonly modeled as static undirected signed graphs. We expand this …