INSIGHT METAGENOMICS Social behavior and the microbiome Social interactions influence the communities of microbes that live in wild baboons. predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. eLife 4:e05224. W hy did social interactions evolve? Complex rules govern how we interact when we meet, and while these principles are often bewildering, they are also somehow intrinsic to the fabric of a...

Nonlinguistic social signals (e.g., `tone of voice’) are often as important as linguistic content in predicting behavioural outcomes [1,2]. This paper describes four automated measure of such social signalling, and shows that they can be used to form powerful predictosr of objective and subjective outcomes in several important situations. Finally, it is argued that such signals are important de...

A brief review of the literature on structural analysis of interpersonal behavior is followed by a proposal which draws heavily from prior models, especially those of Schaefer and of Leary. The proposed model goes beyond previous ones in that it has a highly explicit structure which defines behavioral opposites, complements, and antidotes. Built on two axes named affiliation and interdependence...

This paper is a critical introduction to the new wave of economic literature on the role of social interactions in determining aggregate economic outcomes. I refer to this research program, also known as new social economics, as the socioeconomic analysis of behavior, to distinguish it from the more popular economic analysis of social behavior. I discuss the main features of so-called interacti...

The main purpose of the literature review is an analysis of the impact of shadow activity on social and economic relations and the welfare of the population. The scientific novelty of the research is in the development and realization of the model of interaction of the state and population as a factor contributing to the shadow economic activity. It was shown that shadow economy promotes an inc...

A network of Science, Technology & Innovation actors and their collaborative actions are described in this study. The development of those actions is essential to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the Chinese aeronautic process and to maintain its global competitiveness. The paper analyzes the dynamic cooperation network model of the Chinese aeronautic sector based on the case stu...

W ith the rise of social media, information sharing has been democratized. As a result, users are given opportunities to exhibit different behaviors such as sharing, posting, liking, commenting, and befriending conveniently and on a daily basis. By analyzing behaviors observed on social media, we can categorize these behaviors into individual and collective behavior. Individual behavior is exhi...