Emotions as Infectious Diseases in a Large Social Network¶
Hill, A. L., Rand, D. G., Nowak, M. A., & Christakis, N. A. (2010). Emotions as Infectious Diseases in a Large Social Network: The SISa Model. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277(1701), 3827-3835.
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- Emotional Contagion
- These are not loose analogies but applications of the same relational form to a different substrate, and they yield non-obvious predictions — for instance, that targeting a few highly connected nodes can quell a collective mood more effectively than broadly addressing everyone, an intervention logic Hill, Rand, Nowak, and Christakis (2010) derive from infectious-spread models of emotional states.
This sourceApplies an SIS-with-spontaneous-acquisition model to emotional states, deriving transmissibility and targeted-node implications — supports the marker-373 counterfactual/transfer-reasoning claim.
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Hill et al. apply an infectious-disease (SISa) model to emotional states, backing the model-transfer frame but not the targeted-node intervention prediction.
“We have introduced a novel framework for formalizing social contagion derived from the study of infectious diseases, which can be used to study the spread of emotions or other social phenomena.”
- These are not loose analogies but applications of the same relational form to a different substrate, and they yield non-obvious predictions — for instance, that targeting a few highly connected nodes can quell a collective mood more effectively than broadly addressing everyone, an intervention logic Hill, Rand, Nowak, and Christakis (2010) derive from infectious-spread models of emotional states.
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