Wiley were so kind to publish my book “Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas”, which summarizes a lot of my earlier research on network dynams…
Category: Sociology
De kunst van het trendwatchen
Het is traditioneel de tijd van het jaar dat “trendwatchers” hun licht laten schijnen over maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen en voorspellingen doen over de nabije toekomst. Deze beroepsgroep lijkt een soort geheime bron van…
The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties
PLOS one just published a paper that I co-authored with Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State, Diana Dakhlallah, and Karen Cook. It’s titled “A Community of Strangers: The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties” and studies the…
New paper out: Alcohol use among adolescents as a coordination problem in a dynamic network
I am pleased to announced that Rationality and Society just published a paper I co-authored with Andrea Knecht, titled “Alcohol use among adolescents as a coordination problem in a dynamic network.” In…
On recall of social networks and micro-macro problems
Scientific Reports just published a very interesting article by Matthew Brashears titled “Humans use Compression Heuristics to Improve the Recall of Social Networks“. Here’s the abstract: The ability of primates, including humans,…
De Swaan en experimentele sociologie
Enige tijd geleden publiceerde Sociologie Magazine een column door Abraham de Swaan over experimentele sociologie. Omdat ik experimentele sociologie tot mijn expertise reken, De Swaan naar mijn mening de plank een beetje…
The queen’s clothes
Earlier this week the Dutch queen Beatrix announced that she will soon step down in favor of her son, who will then be king. In the media storm that followed, I was…
PLoS ONE now officially does social science
The on-line open access journal PLoS ONE (claimed to be the largest in the world), seems to attract more and more social scientists, perhaps lured (like me) by its promise of fast…
New year, new address(es)
Recently, I decided that it was time for this blog to have a “real” web address, so as of last month, it lives at www.rensecorten.org. The old address will still work, but…
The structure and dynamics of the global network of inter-firm R&D partnerships 1989–2002
I am pleased to announce that my paper with Michał Bojanowski and Bastian Westbrock titled “The structure and dynamics of the global network of inter-firm R&D partnerships 1989–2002” was just published by …