{"id":1004,"date":"2015-07-01T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/141.2.195.31\/wordpress\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2020-01-22T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:26:40","slug":"how-individual-characteristics-shape-the-structure-of-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/publications\/how-individual-characteristics-shape-the-structure-of-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"How individual characteristics shape the structure of social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/X01672681-e1554029576771.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\">Florian Hett, Girard Yann, Daniel Schunk, 2015,<br \/>\n<em>Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization<\/em>, 115, 197-216<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\">\n<p><!--more Continue reading--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jebo.2014.12.005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link to publication<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-pagination-text-research-abstract\">Abstract:<br \/>\nWe study how students\u2019 social networks emerge by documenting systematic patterns in the process of friendship formation of incoming students; these students all start out in a new environment and thus jointly create a new social network. As a specific novelty, we consider cooperativeness, time and risk preferences \u2013 elicited experimentally \u2013 together with factors like socioeconomic and personality characteristics. We find a number of robust predictors of link formation and of the position within the social network (local and global network centrality). In particular, cooperativeness has a complex association with link formation. We also find evidence for homophily along several dimensions. Finally, our results show that despite these systematic patterns, social network structures can be exogenously manipulated, as we find that random assignments of students to groups on the first two days of university impacts the students\u2019 friendship formation process.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florian Hett, Girard Yann, Daniel Schunk, 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 115, 197-216<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flex.uni-frankfurt.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}