May 10, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News
Expert Advisory Committee: We are excited to announce the creation of the Expert Advisory Committee for our project “Scaling Up Experimental Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science.” Funded by research grants from the James and Jane Manzi Analytics Fund and Alfred...
Apr 29, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
Coauthored by Lab Director Duncan Watts, the new white paper “Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science” proposes a fundamental rethinking of the model of virtual-laboratory style experiments. It outlines four major changes to the...
Apr 16, 2021 | Group Dynamics, News, Published
“A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Informal Social Networks in Firms,” authored by Lab Director Duncan Watts and coauthor Abigail Jacobs, has been published in Management Science. The paper provides an analysis of a unique data set of aggregated, anonymized email...
Apr 9, 2021 | News, PennMAP, Published
Authored by Lab Director Duncan Watts and coauthors David Rothschild and Markus Mobius, a recent paper titled “Measuring the news and its impact on democracy” has been published in PNAS. The paper proposes an ambitious collective research agenda to measure the...
