Similarity breeds connection. This principle—the homophily principle—structures network
ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer …

Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing and it is essential that peer reviewers
are appointed on the basis of their expertise alone. However, it is difficult to check for any …

It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in
education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do …

In this paper, we examine when members of underrepresented groups choose to support
each other, using the context of the funding of female founders via donation-based …

Despite the spread and adoption of social network concepts outside of the academy and the
rising use of social network analysis across a number of disciplines, there is no general …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

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Homophily, the tendency for similar actors to be connected at a higher rate than dissimilar
actors, is a pervasive social fact. In this article, we examine changes over a 20-year period in …

Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes …

A notable feature of US social networks is their high degree of racial homogeneity, which is
often attributed to racial homophily—the preference for associating with individuals of the …