Describing human social behaviour through simple mathematical models remains an open challenge. Here, the authors analyse a dataset tracking the evolution of social relationships among 900 individuals over four years revealing that, despite individual-level changes, the network exhibits a form of stability consistent with equilibrium dynamics in the statistical physics sense, offering both practical and theoretical implications for the study of social networks.
- Miguel A. González-Casado
- Andreia Sofia Teixeira
- Angel Sánchez
