Management teams are becoming increasingly similar, appearing almost stereotypical, and are less intellectually diverse as a ...

Social network analysis has recently attracted lots of attention among researchers due to its wide applicability in capturing social interactions. Link prediction, related to the likelihood of having ...

The principle of similarity, or homophily, is often used to explain patterns observed in complex networks such as transitivity and the abundance of triangles (3-cycles). However, many phenomena from ...

At first thought, computing the similarity/distance between two datasets sounds easy, but in fact the problem is extremely difficult, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research. A fairly ...

Compliance is a behavior performed only because it is requested. Otherwise, it will not happen. What explains this kind of social influence? Social psychologist Robert Cialdini, in his masterful ...

Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about how to create visually digestible interfaces, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the ...

Folk wisdom (and even some contemporary research) presents a mixed picture about who we end up finding attractive and compatible as a romantic partner. Do we prefer as dates, mates, and spouses people ...

Researchers have found that how similar you are to your partner can affect your happiness – but it’s complicated. Among many monogamous species, from cockatiels to cichlid fish, studies have revealed ...