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Christakis, Nicholas A. |
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Yale University |
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Social and Political Sciences |
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Economic Sciences |
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Dr. Christakis conducts research in the fields of network science, biosocial science, and various other areas. His current work focuses on how human biology and welfare affect, and are affected by, social interactions and social networks. One line of work in his lab focuses on how health and health behavior in one person can influence analogous outcomes in a person’s social network, via social contagion. This work involves the application of statistical and mathematical models to understand the |
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