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  • An exploration of the science behind our morality from philosopher Patricia Churchland is illuminating and grounded, finds Nicholas A. Christakis.

    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 569, P: 627-628

  • Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.

    • Eric Feltham
    • Laura Forastiere
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 9, P: 1737-1753

  • A networked colour coordination game, with humans interacting with autonomous software bots, shows that bots acting with small levels of random noise and being placed centrally in the network improves not only human–bot interactions but also human–human interactions at distant nodes.

    • Hirokazu Shirado
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 545, P: 370-374

  • Discovering innovative ideas from numerous candidates is hard. Here, the authors show that simple autonomous agents (AI bots) can facilitate creative semantic discovery in human groups by leveraging the wisdom of crowds, essentially reducing noise.

    • Atsushi Ueshima
    • Matthew I. Jones
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-11

  • An investigation into the relationship between network structure and gut microbiome composition among people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages reveals that strain-sharing can be mediated by complex, village-wide social interactions.

    • Francesco Beghini
    • Jackson Pullman
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 637, P: 167-175

  • Variations in opinion between members of a community can be exploited to facilitate desirable changes in attitude, as exemplified by films that explore different beliefs about female genital cutting. See Letter p.506

    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 538, P: 465-466

  • The effect of the rate of forming and breaking social ties on cooperative behaviour is not clear. Here the authors experimentally test the effect of rewiring the connections between individuals, and find that optimal levels of cooperation are achieved at intermediate levels of change in ties.

    • Hirokazu Shirado
    • Feng Fu
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, P: 1-8

  • Resource sharing over peer-to-peer technological networks is emerging as economically important, yet little is known about how people choose to share in this context. Here, the authors introduce a new game to model sharing, and test how players form sharing strategies depending on technological constraints.

    • Hirokazu Shirado
    • George Iosifidis
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-10

  • Antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in commensal gut bacteria may act as a reservoir for acquisition by pathogens. Here, the authors assess the distribution and transfer potential of ARGs in gut microbiomes and find that clinically important ARGs are taxonomically restricted despite being associated with mobile plasmids

    • Peter J. Diebold
    • Matthew W. Rhee
    • Ilana L. Brito
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-12

  • Social connections are an important means for people to cope with adversity and illness. Thus, technologies, such as social network analysis, that can leverage close, face-to-face social networks could help optimize healthcare interventions and reduce healthcare-related costs, particularly in low-resource settings.

    • Shivkumar Vishnempet Shridhar
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Bioengineering
    Volume: 2, P: 6-7

  • Using two series of online experiments involving a public goods game and manipulation of wealth visibility, the authors show that invisible wealth achieved higher subjective well-being, particularly among poorer subjects leading to a reduction in the economic gradient in well-being.

    • Akihiro Nishi
    • Christopher A. German
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature Mental Health
    Volume: 1, P: 990-1000

  • Modelling of population flows in China enables the forecasting of the distribution of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the identification of areas at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at an early stage.

    • Jayson S. Jia
    • Xin Lu
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 582, P: 389-394

    • Feng Fu
    • Martin A. Nowak
    • James H. Fowler
    ResearchOpen Access
    Scientific Reports
    Volume: 2, P: 1-6

  • Wealth inequality and wealth visibility can potentially affect overall levels of cooperation and economic success, and an online experiment was used to test how these factors interact; wealth inequality by itself did not substantially damage overall cooperation or overall wealth, but making wealth levels visible had a detrimental effect on social welfare.

    • Akihiro Nishi
    • Hirokazu Shirado
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 526, P: 426-429

  • The social networks of Hadza hunter-gatherers are structurally similar to modern social networks and show signs of clustering in cooperative behaviour, which suggests that these networks may have contributed to the emergence of cooperation in early humans.

    • Coren L. Apicella
    • Frank W. Marlowe
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 481, P: 497-501

  • Understanding the behaviour of the machines powered by artificial intelligence that increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions is essential to our ability to control the actions of these intelligent machines, reap their benefits and minimize their harms.

    • Iyad Rahwan
    • Manuel Cebrian
    • Michael Wellman
    Reviews
    Nature
    Volume: 568, P: 477-486

  • Analyses of transactions in a new monetary system (Sardex community currency) reveal that transaction cycles increase in prevalence over time and that economic activity within these cycles is higher compared to linear transactions through the network.

    • George Iosifidis
    • Yanick Charette
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 2, P: 822-829

    • Amir Ghasemian
    • Nicholas A. Christakis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Scientific Reports
    Volume: 13, P: 1-14