Beyond Contagion: Reality Mining Reveals Complex Patterns of Social Influence.

ABSTRACT: Contagion, a concept from epidemiology, has long been used to characterize social influence on people's behavior and affective (emotional) states. While it has revealed many useful insights, it is not clear whether the contagion metaphor is sufficient to fully characterize the complex dynamics of psychological states in a social context. Using wearable sensors that capture daily face-to-face interaction, combined with three daily experience sampling surveys, we collected the most comprehensive data set of personality and emotion dynamics of an entire community of work. From this high-resolution data about actual (rather than self-reported) face-to-face interaction, a complex picture emerges where contagion (that can be seen as adaptation of behavioral responses to the behavior of other peo

SUBMITTER: Alshamsi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4551670 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature