Nicholas A. Christakis

Physician, sociologist, and director of Yale's Human Nature Lab. A leading researcher on social networks, collective behavior, and the spread of information, behaviors, and beliefs through populations. Author of "Blueprint" and "Connected," foundational works on how network structure shapes individual and collective outcomes.

Sources in this wiki

• Modeling Duelling Contagions of True and False Information in the Face of Inherent

Topics

• Social networks and online communities, Information diffusion in social networks, Collective Behavior

Notes

Highly influential in establishing network science as a lens for understanding information and behavior spread; work provides theoretical foundation for many misinformation diffusion studies.