Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has
produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies …

Theoretical models of critical mass have shown how minority groups can initiate social
change dynamics in the emergence of new social conventions. Here, we study an artificial …

A paramount research challenge in network and complex systems science is to understand
the dissemination of diseases, information and behaviour. The COVID-19 pandemic and the …

Although in the early years of the Journal leadership research was rare and focused
primarily on traits differentiating leaders from nonleaders, subsequent to World War II the …

This handbook is a translation of the French manual “Des céramiques et des hommes.
Décoder les assemblages archéologiques.”(2016, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest …

A longstanding problem in the social, biological, and computational sciences is to determine
how groups of distributed individuals can form intelligent collective judgments. Since …

Social media are used as main discussion channels by millions of individuals every day.
The content individuals produce in daily social-media-based micro-communications, and the …

Norms are a foundational concept in sociology. Following a period of skepticism about
norms as overly deterministic and as paying too little attention to social conflict, inequalities …

Social norms are patterns of behavior that are self-enforcing within a group: Everyone
conforms, everyone is expected to conform, and everyone wants to conform when they …