Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Opinion dynamics have attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. Local
interactions among individuals create interesting dynamics for the system as a whole. Such …

A systematic, innovative introduction to the field of network analysis, Network Psychometrics
with R: A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists provides a comprehensive overview of …

Misinformation is usually adjusted to fit distinct narratives and propagates rapidly through
social networks. False beliefs, once adopted, are rarely corrected. Amidst the COVID-19 …

In recent years, network models have been proposed as an alternative representation of
psychometric constructs such as depression. In such models, the covariance between …

Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists,
but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging …

The description of emerging collective phenomena and self-organization in systems
composed of large numbers of individuals has gained increasing interest from various …

Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

In this paper, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the continuous kinetic
version of flocking by Cucker and Smale [IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 52 (2007), pp. 852 …

This short review presents a selected history of the mutual fertilization between physics and
economics—from Isaac Newton and Adam Smith to the present. The fundamentally different …