What’s new?

Jingwen Zhang was awarded Top Paper award by the International Communication Association 2022 Conference, Paris, France, for her paper, “Ritualistic dynamics of task and social-emotional interactions predict interpersonal influence outcomes in compliance-gaining and advice-giving conversations,” May 2022.
Centola, D. Invited by Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to present to the Serious Illness and End of Life Funders Collaborative. March 2022
Centola, D. presented to Harvard Journal on Legislation Symposium as part of “Polarization: The Technological Perspective” panel. March 2022
Guilbeault, D., “How Communication Networks Promote Cross-cultural Similarities: The Case of Category Formation.” Invited colloquium at The Graduate School of Business at Stanford, Organizational Behavior Group, March 2022
Jingwen Zhang was awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as Co-Principal Investigator for “Connecting the Dots between Social Media, Disease Modeling & Extension to Improve Preparation & Response to vND in Southern California” ($1,000,000), February 2022.
Centola, D., “Changing Human Behavior” Invited Closing Keynote speaker for the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3 at the GOED Exchange conference, February 2022
Centola, D., “Complex Centrality: How to Predict Influence in Social Networks” Invited speaker for PolyU Management Speaker Series at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, February 2022
Guilbeault, D., “How Communication Networks Promote Cross-cultural Similarities: The Case of Category Formation.” Invited colloquium at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, Management of Organizations Group, February 2022
Guilbeault, D., “The Collective Psychology of Categorization.” Invited lecture at the Psychology of Collectives Preconference within the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), February 2022
Centola, D. Presented to Harvard and the State Department as part of their Understanding the Psychology of Countering Disinformation webinar. January 2022
Doug Guilbeault was awarded a grant from The Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley for “Identifying Stereotypes in Online Images and Their Implications for Algorithmic Bias.” ($9,000), 2022.
Centola, D. (2021). Medical bias can be deadly. Our research found a way to curb it. Los Angeles Times
Centola, D., Guilbeault, D., Sarkar, U., Khoong, E., Zhang, J. (2021). The reduction of race and gender bias in clinical treatment recommendations using clinician peer networks in an experimental setting. Nature Communications
Urmimala Sarkar co-hosted the 6th annual Promoting Research in Social Media & Health Symposium (PRISM), San Francisco, CA, December 2021
Zhang, J., “Communication with Impact.” Invited lecture for UC Davis Global Affairs. University of California, Davis, November 2021
Guilbeault, D., “Coordinated Influence and the Landscape of Ambiguity.” Invited lecture for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science, Linkoping University, November 2021
Guilbeault, D., “The Network Origins of Categories.” Invited lecture for Stanford’s RAIN (Research on Algorithms and Incentives in Networks) seminar. Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, November 2021
Jingwen Zhang was awarded a Computational Innovator Faculty Research Grant Award from University of California, San Francisco, as Co-Principal Investigator for “Increasing Awareness of Heart Disease in Women with an AI-Driven Conversational Agent.” ($100,000), November 2021.
Guilbeault, D., “The Categorical Imperative in Collective Intelligence.” Invited talk at INFORMS in the general session entitled Topics in Social Media Analytics, October 2021
Jingwen Zhang was awarded The Ayman El-Monhandes Young Professional Public Health Innovation Award from the American Public Health Association ($1,500), October 2021.
Jingwen Zhang was awarded a grant from Facebook Foundational Integrity & Impact Research, as Co-Principal Investigator for “A Media Literacy Intervention to Debunk Out-of-Context Visual Posts.” ($50,000), September 2021.
Centola, D. (2021). How to turn the tide on vaccine hesitancy: Apply an algorithm that actually works. The Hill
Paul, M. (2021). Jennifer Aniston and other celebrities endorse vaccines. Experts say their please may not help. The Washington Post
Cohen, A. (2021). Want to go viral? Influencers won’t be much help if you’re trying to spread a complex idea. Fast Company
Guilbeault, D., Centola, D. (2021). Topological measures for identifying and predicting the spread of complex contagions. Nature Communications
Guilbeault, D., “Strategic Influence in the Social Construction of Categories.” Invited talk at ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence, June 2021
Guilbeault, D., Network Experiments on the Emergence of Shared Categories across Cultures. Invited colloquium at The Sante Fe Institute of Complex Systems, May 2021
Centola, D., The Snowball Effect Interview , Hidden Brain Podcast, NPR, March 2021
Guilbeault, D., “Large Communication Networks Promote Shared Understanding across Cultures.” Invited colloquium at The Kellogg School of Management and NICO (The Northwestern Institute of Complex Systems), February 2021
Guilbeault, D., Baronchelli, A., Centola, D. (2021). Experimental evidence for scale-induced category convergence across populations. Nature Communications
Zhang, J., “UC Davis LIVE on Combating Vaccine Misinformation Online.” University of California, Davis, January 2021
Zhang, J., “Researching the Effects of Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intentions: What we know and what we don’t know (yet).” Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, January 2021
Guilbeault, D., “Network Experiments on the Social Construction of Categories.” Invited colloquium in the Analytic Sociology Series at the European University Institute, January 2021
Doug Guilbeault was awarded a grant from The Fisher Center for Business Analytics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley for “Measuring Stereotypes in Online Images and their Impact on Recommendation Algorithms.” ($12,000), 2021.
Doug Guilbeault was awarded the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellowship at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2021.
Centola, D. (2020). Considering Network Interventions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Centola, D. (2020). Why Social Media Makes Us More Polarized and How to Fix It. Scientific American
Brackbill, D., Centola, D. (2020). Impact of network structure on collective learning: An experimental study in a data science competition. PLoS ONE.
Guilbeault, D., Centola, D. (2020). Networked collective intelligence improves dissemination of scientific information regarding smoking risks. PLoS ONE.
Centola, D. (2020). Physician networks and the complex contagion of clinical treatment. JAMA Network Open.
Centola, D., Dollars and Change Interview, The Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Penn, October 2019
Le, G.M., Radcliffe, K., Lyles, C., Lyson, H.C., Wallace, B., Sawaya, G., Pasick, R., Centola, D., Sarkar, U. (2019). Perceptions of cervical cancer prevention on Twitter uncovered by different sampling strategies. PLoS ONE.
Zhang, J., Le, G., Larochelle, D., Pasick, R., Sawaya, G.F., Sarkar, U., and Centola, D. (2019). Facts or stories? How to use social media for cervical cancer prevention: A multi-method study of the effects of sender type and content type on increased message sharing. Preventive Medicine.
Damon Centola and Doug Guilbeault were awarded a Content Policy Research on Social Media Platforms grant from Facebook for, “Networked Crowdsourcing: An Online Experiment in Content Moderation” ($100,000), May 2019.
Zhang, J., & Centola, D. Social networks and health: New developments in diffusion, online and offline. Annual Review of Sociology.
Zhang, J. & Centola, D. Top Faculty Paper Award for “Facts or stories? How to use social media for cervical cancer prevention: A multi-method study and randomized trial of the effects of sender type and content type on increased message sharing.” The International Communication Association, 2019.
Becker, J., Porter, E., & Centola, D. (2019). The wisdom of partisan crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201817195.
Trey Popp. (2019). The Virality Paradox. The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 2019.
Doug Guilbeault. Cognitive Science Society 2019 Computational Modeling Prize in Applied Cognition for, “Social Network Dynamics in the Construction of Meaning: An Experimental Study” ($1,000), July 2019.
Doug Guilbeault. Cognitive Science Society 2019 Travel Grant for, “Social Network Dynamics in the Construction of Meaning: An Experimental Study” ($500), July 2019.
Forbush, E., Guilbeault, D., Gursky, J., & Centola, D., “Misinformation, Modularity, and Bot Zealots in the Wisdom of the Crowds.” International Communication Association, Washington, D.C., May 2019
Zhang, J., Centola, D., “Facts or Stories? How to Use Social Media for Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Multi-Method Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Sender Type and Content Type on Message Shares.” International Communication Association Conference, Washington D.C., May 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Science Conference, University of Utrecht, May 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Wharton Club NY, Penn, April 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Complex Social Systems Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon, April 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Tennessee, April 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2019
Guilbeault, D., Invited Talk, “Radical Emergence and the Network Dynamics of Category Creation.” Invited lecture for The Social and Behavioral Science Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. March 2019
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn Regional Alumni Club, Jacksonville, January 2019
Guilbeault, D., Invited Talk, “Using Social Networks to Enhance Classification in Crowdsourcing Platforms.” Zooniverse. January 2019
Lyson, H., Le, G., Zhang, J., Rivadeneira, N., Lyles, C., Radcliffe, K., Pasick, R.J., Sawaya, G., Sarkar, U., & Centola, D. (2018). Social media as a tool to promote health awareness: Results from an online cervical cancer prevention study. Journal of Cancer Education.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, PRISM Health Symposium, UCSF, December 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Social and Behavioral Science Workshop, Penn, November 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, EE Computer Systems Colloquium, Stanford, November 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Social Norms and Informal Institutions Lecture, Penn, November 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, PennDemic 2018, October 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Microsoft Workplace Analytics Workshop, October 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Amazon Headquarters, Seattle, Washington, October 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Behavioral Risk Modeling for Pandemic Prevention and Response Workshop, the National Museum of Natural History, October 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, CMU Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health Annual Meeting, Penn, October 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Technology and Policy Seminar, Penn, October 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Workshop on Norms and Behavior Change, Penn, October 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Becker, J., Centola, D., “Social Learning and Partisan Bias in the Interpretation of Climate Trends.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Distinguished Lecture Series, NSF, September 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, Penn Medicine, September 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, August 2018.
Becker, J., “Collected vs. Collective Intelligence in the Wisdom of Crowds.” 2018 ASA Preconference: Computational Sociology, Penn, August 2018.
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D., Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article, Mathmatical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Guilbeault, D., Becker, J., Centola, D., Best Paper Award. “Bipartisan Social Networks Reduce Political Bias in the Interpretation of Climate Trends.” The International Conference on Computational Social Science. Northwestern University.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, NCI Meeting on Misinformation and Social Media, August 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Top Student Paper Award. “Political Automation: Challenges, Methods, and Solutions.” The International Communication Association, 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Becker, J., Centola, D., “Bipartisan Social Networks Reduce Political Bias in the Interpretation of Climate Trends.” American Sociology Association 2018, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018.
Becker, J. “Network Dynamics of Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Decisions.” American Sociology Association 2018, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018.
Becker, J., Centola, D., Porter, E. “The Wisdom of Political Crowds: Increasing Accuracy and Reducing Polarization in Echo Chambers.” American Sociology Association 2018, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018.
Becker, J. and Centola, D. “Can the Wisdom of Crowds Increase the Accuracy of Financial Beliefs?” American Sociology Association 2018, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018.
Centola, D., Keynote, ICCS: Network Interventions for Social Good, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2018.
Centola, D., Keynote, IC2S2, Kellogg School of Management, July 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Becker, J., Centola, D., “Bipartisan Social Networks Reduce Political Bias in the Interpretation of Climate Trends.” The 4th International Conference on Computational Social Science. Evanston, IL. July 2018.
Becker, J., Centola, D., Porter, E. “The Wisdom of Political Crowds: Increasing Accuracy and Reducing Polarization in Echo Chambers.” International Conference for Computational Social Science. Evanston, IL. July 2018.
Becker, J. and Centola D., “Can Individuals Benefit from the Wisdom of Crowds?” International Conference for Computational Social Science. Evanston, IL. July 2018.
Guilbeault, D., “Bipartisan Social Networks Reduce Political Bias in the Interpretation of Climate Trends.” XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands. June 26 – July 1, 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, June 2018.
Centola, D., Keynote, HB Sports and Entertainment STTAR Summit, June 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, American Heart Association, , June 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science. The Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems Research. June 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Duke University, June 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, IT Symposium, Penn, May 2018.
Becker, J., “Social Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds.” Human Cooperation Lab, Yale. April 2018.
Centola, D., Keynote, Washington University in St. Louis Medical School Symposium, Missouri, April 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Social Media and Democracy Workshop, Stanford University, California, April 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, April 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, April 2018
Becker, J., “Social Influence and the Wisdom of Crowds.” Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, MIT. March 2018.
Guilbeault, D. “Using Collective Intelligence to Mitigate Reasoning in Climate Change Communications.” CompleNet 2018, Boston, MA, March 2018.
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds.” CompleNet 2018, Boston, MA, March 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Washington, D.C., March 2018.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Knowledge Teach-In, Penn, March 2018.
Yang, S., “Advancing Health through Recommendation Algorithms and Online Networking Technologies: A Computational Message Science Approach.” University of Florida. February 2018.
Yang, S., “Advancing Health through Recommendation Algorithms and Online Networking Technologies: A Computational Message Science Approach.” Rutgers University, February 2018.
Guilbeault, D., Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science at the University of Michigan, “The Network Dynamics of Interdisciplinary Research.” ($15,000), January 2018
Centola, D., Invited Talk, PRISM Conference, UCSF, December 2017.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Center for Data Science, NYU, December 2017.
Network Dynamics Group, Coursera Course “Network Dynamics of Social Behavior” November, 2017.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Computational Social Science Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2017.
Yang, S., “Advancing Health through Recommendation Algorithms and Online Networking Technologies: A Computational Message Science Approach.” University of Oregon. November 2017.
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D., “Learning is robust to noise in decentralized networks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 114:E9184. October 2017.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, CMU Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health, Penn, October 2017.
Centola, D., Keynote, cSCAN, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2017.
Yang, S., Zhang, J., Dehlendorf, C., & Centola, D.. Applying Structural Topic Modeling (STM) to explain the efficacy of an online group intervention to promote perceived norms for using intrauterine devices. Poster to be presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA, November 2017.
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds to Improve Group Decisions.” Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium, Wharton School, Philadelphia, October 2017.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Amazon Radical Social Science & Humanities, Seattle, Washington, October 2017
Becker, J., Porter, E., Russell Sage Foundation, Summer Institute for Computational Social Science, “Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds to Increase Political Knowledge.” ($7800 direct), July 2017.
Damon Centola, Doug Guilbeault, Jaya Aysola, Janet Audrain, and Joshua Becker were awarded an NIH grant from the Tobacco Centers for Regulatory Control for, “Using Social Networks to Improve Scientific Communication about Tobacco Use” ($50,000, direct), June 2017.
Becker, J. Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Princeton University, June 18 – July 1, 2017.
Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
Centola, D., James Coleman Award for Outstanding Article of the Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, 2017
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds,” International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany, July 2017.
Kim, S., Herbert, N., van de Rijt, A., Centola, D. “Emergence and Stability of Status Hierarchy,” International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cologne, Germany, July 2017.
Centola, D., Santa Fe Institute, New York, July 2017
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Analytical Sociology Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2017
Centola, D., Invited Talk, UC Davis, Re-computing Social Sciences Workshop, May 2017.
Becker, J. Russell Wharton Risk Center Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship, “Can social influence improve financial forecasting?” ($2,000 direct), April 2017.
Kim, S., Centola, D. “A seeding strategy to promote the spread of behavior on social networks,” International School and Conference on Network Science, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2017.
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 2017.
Yang, S., Zhang, J., Dehlendorf, C., & Centola, D. (2017, May). What Topics Matter? Applying Structural Topic Modeling (STM) to Extract Insights from Social Media-Based Health Interventions. International Communication Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.
Guilbeault, D., RightsCon Brussels, Workshop on Detecting and Building Bots, Belgium, March 29 – 31, 2017
Centola, D., Keynote, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, New Orleans, March 2017
Centola, D., Invited Talk, UCLA, California’s Center for Population Research, February 2017
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Harvard, GSE, February 2017
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Department of Psychology, Drexel, January 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Behavioral Economics and Health Symposium, December 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, UCSF, Center for Vulnerable Populations, December 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, The Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, November 2016
Centola, D., Keynote, American Heart Association Annual Innovation Forum, Chicago, November 2016
Centola, D., Keynote, Social Informatics 2016, Seattle, November 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn- CMU, Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, October 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Psychology and Evolutionary Biology, October 2016.
Becker, J., “Support or competition? How online social networks increase physical activity: A randomized controlled trial.” Social Media and Health Innovation Lab, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, October 2016.
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Ignite Talk, RWJF, New York City, October 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Princeton, Department of Sociology, October 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Yale, YINS Workshop, September 2016
PI, Robert Wood Johnson Pioneer Grant for “Improving Medical Decision Making through the Wisdom of Crowds” ($390,041), September 2016
Co-PI, Swedish Foundation Grant for “Career Development Workshops to Promote Analytical Sociology” (with Peter Hedstrom, Elizabeth Bruch, and Emily Erikson) ($109,350 direct)
Support or competition? How online social networks increase physical activity: A randomized controlled trial Preventive Medicine Reports, 2016
Brackbill, D., Becker, J., Centola, D., “The Danger of Opinion Leaders: How Social Influence Affects the Wisdom of Crowds.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, August 2016
Herbert, N., Kim, S., and Centola, D., “Is inequality inevitable? An agent-based bargaining model of network structure and nominal characteristic tags”, Advances in Mathematical Sociology session, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, August 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stanford, Department of Psychology, July 2016
Brackbill, D., Becker, J., Centola, D. “The Danger of Opinion Leaders: How Social Influence Affects the Wisdom of Crowds.” International Conference on Computational Social Science, Chicago, IL, June 24-26 2016
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “An Experimental Study of Critical Mass.” International Conference on Computational Social Science, Chicago, IL, June 24-26 2016
Herbert, N., Kim, S., and Centola, D., “Is inequality inevitable? An agent-based bargaining model of network structure and nominal characteristic tags”, International Conference on Computational Social Science, Evanston, IL, June 24-26 2016
Becker, J., Brackbill, D., Centola, D. “An Experimental Study of Collective Intelligence.” Collective Intelligence Conference, New York, NY, June 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, WZB Science Center, Berlin, June 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Norms, Actions and Games Conference, Toulouse, June 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Sorbonne, Paris, June 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Institute for Advanced Study, Sweden, June 2016
Joshua Becker, Natalie Herbert, and Damon Centola. Penn Online Learning Initiative Development Grant for “Network Dynamics and Social Behavior” ($17,000), May 2016.
Natalie Herbert. Wharton Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship for Research on Human Decision Processes and Risk Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania ($3,000 direct). “Is inequality inescapable? Modeling and experimental studies on structural inequality,” April 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Cornell, Department of Communications, April 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Duke, Department of Sociology, April 2016
Jingwen Zhang, Chinese government award for outstanding students abroad (Link in Chinese). March 18, 2016
Centola, D., Keynote, Center for Mathematical Sciences Annual Symposium, Auckland, NZ, February 2016
Centola, D., Keynote, AAAI & World Wide Web and Population Health (W3PHI), February 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Northwestern, Kellogg, January 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, January 2016
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Language and Cultural Evolution Workshop, December 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Health Communication Speaker Series, December 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Perelman School of Medicine, December 2015
Identifying the effects of social media on health behavior: Data from a large-scale online experiment Data in Brief (2015)
Efficacy and causal mechanism of an online social media intervention to increase physical activity: Results of a randomized controlled trial Preventive Medicine Reports (2015)
The social origins of networks and diffusion American Journal of Sociology (2015)
Jingwen Zhang accepts assistant professor position in persuasive technologies at the department of Communication at the University of California, Davis. December 21, 2015
The spontaneous emergence of conventions: An experimental study of cultural evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Zhang, J., “Hacking the system of networked social influence: Linking social networks, social influence, and persuasive technology”, Invited Talk, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, December 1, 2015
Zhang, J., Brackbill, D., Yang, S., & Centola, D. “Efficacy and causal mechanism of an online social network intervention to increase physical activity”, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Elihu Katz Symposium, November 2015
Becker, J. & Centola, D., “Coordination, exploration, and collective decisions”, Workshop on Information and Networks, New York, NY., Oct 2-3, 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, October 2015
Brackbill, D., Becker, J., Herbert, N., and Centola, D., “The Danger of Opinion Leaders: How Centralization Undermines the Wisdom of Crowds”, Workshop on Information in Networks, New York, NY., October, 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Colby, Sociology Seminar, October 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Rutgers, Center for Cognitive Science, September 2015
Becker, J., “Collective Decisions as Coordination Processes: The Influence of Hubs”, NetSci 2015, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-15, 2015
Brackbill, D., “Designing Collaboration Networks for Collective Problem Solving.” NetSci, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-15, 2015
Brackbill, D., “Engineering Behavior Change through Social Media”, International Conference on Computational Social Science, Helsinki, Finland, June, 2015, https://youtu.be/auvv9MHTzfs?t=59m5s
Zhang, J., Brackbill, D., Yang, S., & Centola, D., “Efficacy and causal mechanism of an online social media intervention to increase physical activity: Results of a randomized controlled trial”, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 24, 2015
Centola, D., ICA Panel on Computational Social Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 24, 2015
Becker, J., “Collective Decisions as Coordination Processes: The Influence of Hubs”, Computational Social Science Summit, Chicago, IL. May 15-17, 2015
Devon Brackbill. Wharton Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship for Research on Human Decision Processes and Risk Management, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania ($3,500 direct), April 2015. “Designing Collaboration Networks to Optimize Collective Problem-Solving.”
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Northwestern, Institute on Complex Systems, May 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, USC, Gould School of Law, April 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stanford, Psychology Department, April 2015
Devon Brackbill and Damon Centola. National Science Foundation. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Sociology ($11,912), March 2015. “Designing Collaboration Networks to Optimize Collective Problem-Solving.”
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stanford, Media X, March 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stanford, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, February 2015
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Northeastern, Network Science Seminar, February 2015
2014-2017, Centola D., Sarkar, U., NIH R01 Grant for “Influencing Cervical Cancer Prevention and Detection through Social Media,” ($1,885,685)
2014-2016, Centola, D., Dehlendorf, C., Hewlett Foundation Grant for “Effects of Peer Influence on Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use” ($423,500, direct)
Centola, D., Keynote, Center for Mathematical Sciences Annual Symposium, Auckland, NZ, December 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Columbia, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, November 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Shady Grove, MD, November 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, October 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Keynote, Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health Symposium, October 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Cornell, Computational Social Science Seminar, September 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stanford, Symposium on Computational Social Science, August 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Wharton School, August 2014
Zhang, J., Brackbill, D., Yang, S., & Centola, D., “A social media intervention to increase physical activity”, Beijing, China, July 14-18, 2014
Choosing your network: Social preferences in an online health community Social Science and Medicine (2014)
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Microsoft, New York City, June 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, McDonnell Foundation, Complex Systems Scholars Symposium, May 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Department of Sociology, April 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Stony Brook, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, April 2014
Centola, D., Invited Talk, UCLA, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, January 2014
2013-2014, Centola, D., Zhang, J., Brackbill, D., Yang, S., Annenberg National Health Communication Study Seed Grant for “How Online
Networks Impact Health Outcomes” ($35,000, direct)
Social Media and the Science of Health Behavior Circulation (2013)
A Simple Model of Stability in Critical Mass Dynamics Journal of Statistical Physics (2013)
Homophily, networks and critical mass: Solving the start-up problem in large group collective action Rationality and Society (2013)
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Berkeley, Simons Center for the Theory of Computing, November 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Harvard, U.S.-China Health Summit, October 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Behavioral Ethics Seminar, Philosophy Department, October 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Penn, Decision Process Seminar, Wharton School, October 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Princeton, NIH RAPIDD Workshop, Epidemiology and Networks, October 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, ASA, Web-Based Social Science Forum, August 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Apple, Cupertino, CA, June 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, UCSF, Center for Vulnerable Populations, UCSF, May 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Scott & White Healthcare, Austin, TX, May 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Harvard, Causal Inference Conference, May 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, U.S. Surgeon General’s Office, Program for Health Innovation, April 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, M.I.T, Future ICT Conference, February 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, M.I.T., Plenary Speaker, Future of Health and Wellness, February 2013
Centola, D., Invited Talk, Yale, School of Public Health, January 2013