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Can Invisible Psychological Traits Organize Visible Network Structure? A Complex Network Analysis of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Based Interaction Patterns in Anonymous Social Networks
Exploration of the impact of personality traits on social interactions within anonymous online communities poses a challenge at the interface of networked social sciences and psychology. We analyze whether Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types impact the dynamics of interactions on an anonymous chat system with over 288,000 messages from 6,076 users. Using a data set including 940 users voluntarily providing MBTI typing and gender, we create a weighted undirected network and appl…

Educational Intervention Re-Wires Social Interactions in Isolated Village Networks
Marios Papamichalis, Laura Forastiere, Edoardo M. Airoldi, Nicholas A. Christakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10496

Educational Intervention Re-Wires Social Interactions in Isolated Village Networks
Social networks shape behavior, disseminate information, and undergird collective action within communities. Consequently, they can be very valuable in the design of effective interventions to improve community well-being. But any exogenous intervention in networked groups, including ones that just involve the provision of information, can also possibly modify the underlying network structure itself, and some interventions are indeed designed to do so. While social networks obey certain fundame…