Models of Social Dynamics
Unit 2: Contagion
Diseases, information, behaviors, and technologies spread from one person to another - this is contagion. In this unit we explore models of adoption by both individual exploration and social influence.
Resources
Slides: (pdf)
Script: (pdf)
Code:
contagion_spontaneous.nlogo
contagion_SI.nlogo
contagion_sis.nlogo
Readings: (pdf)
Exercises: (pdf)
This project was supported by Grant #61105 from the John Templeton Foundation to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (PIs: S. Gavrilets and P. J. Richerson) with assistance from the Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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