Dr. Christakis and Dr. Fowler analyzed behaviors other than obesity, estimating large effects of contagion in spreading them too.
The yet-to-be-launched OMT programme has sharply reduced the "reversibility premium" in Spanish and Italian bond yields, thereby significantly diminishing the effects of contagion.
It's cute that Facebook was apparently trying to make me sad by suppressing my friends' good-news updates so that I feel surrounded by anxiety and illness, in order to measure the effects of "contagion" on users' emotional states.
Differently from the present work, which begins its study from a particular ODE model and generalizes this one to a CA model introducing spatial and local effects, the paper cited, starts by defining an original CA model, compares it with the corresponding ODE model with effects of contagion and shows the advantages of the cooperation to fight tax evasion.
The network effect of this contagion was studied, naturally, "via text-based computer-mediated communication" and was limited to English-speaking users.
Although this might be an effect of emotional contagion, the authors of the study suggested that this pattern might be the result of emotional and linguistic homophily.
The effect of suicide contagion seems to be strongest among adolescents, particularly young adolescents.
Historically, social contagion, through uncritical acceptance of rumours, unverified information and persecutory interpretations of facts, has often unleashed acts of irrational mass behaviours, at times extremely cruel and violent (Mackay, 2008); however, it is difficult to fully explain these riots as the effect of social contagion.
When the (phi ) of the attached world grows it produces a positive effect also on the world reported in the graph as a result of contagion.
