Professor
Department Chair
Department of Sociology
EXPERTISE
Collective action; social control in groups and organizations; self-organizing group dynamics; cognitive game theory; social exchange theory; methods: computer simulation, laboratory experiments
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
"The Danger of Community Failure" (NIAS Research Group includes S. Lindenberg and W. Raub); "The Emperor's Dilemma" (popular enforcement of unpopular norms, with Robb Willer and Damon Centola); Dynamic social networks (with Andreas Flache and James Kitts); Informal social control in on-line trading communities (with Ko Kuwabara); Coalition formation in exchange networks (with Brent Simpson); Trust and cooperation in the U.S. and Japan (with Toshio Yamagishi, Yoshimichi Sato, and Ko Kuwabara); Management fads (with David Strang); Cognitive game theory (with Andreas Flache)
RELATED LINKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(With Walter Luke) "Artificial Societies." In Szmatka, Lovaglia, and Wysienska, eds. The Growth of Social Knowledge: Theory, Simulation, and Empirical Research in Group Processes. Praeger, 2002.
(With Robb Willer) "From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling." Annual Review of Sociology 28, 2002. Pp. 143-66.
(With Andreas Flache) "Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99, 2002. Pp. 7229-36.
(With Andreas Flache) "Stochastic Collusion and the Power Law of Learning." Journal of Conflict Resolution, October 2002.
(With Yoshimichi Sato) "Trust, Cooperation, and Market Formation in the U.S. and Japan." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99, 2002. Pp. 7214-20.
(With David Strang) "'In Search of Excellence': Fads, Success Stories, and Adaptive Emulation." American Journal of Sociology 107, 2001. Pp. 147-82.
(With Brent Simpson) "Social Dilemmas and Power Inequality: Coalitions in Exchange Networks." Social Psychology Quarterly 64, 2001. Pp. 88-102.
(With Andreas Flache and Werner Raub) "Do Company Towns Solve Free Rider Problems? A Sensitivity Analysis of a Rational-Choice Explanation." In W. Raub and J. Wessie, eds. The Management of Durable Relations. Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 2000.
(With R. Thomas Boone) "Unlocking the Doors to Prisoner's Dilemma: Dependence, Selectivity, and Cooperation." Social Psychology Quarterly 62, 1999. Pp. 32-52, 1999.
(With John Skvoretz) "The Evolution of Trust and Cooperation Between Strangers: A Computational Model." American Sociological Review 63, 1998. Pp. 638-60.
