The Contagion of Social Behaviors: A Q&A with Nicholas Christakis

The Contagion of Social Behaviors: A Q&A with Nicholas Christakis Summary In his talk, Nicholas Christakis examines how social behaviors can spread contagiously through networks of people. With data from the Framingham Heart Study, he investigates how health behaviors like obesity and smoking can spread from friend to friend and from spouse to spouse. Christakis …

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