List of works by Nicholas A. Christakis

"Are you at peace?": one item to probe spiritual concerns at the end of life

A dynamic network approach for the study of human phenotypes

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A methodology for identifying married couples in Medicare data: mortality, morbidity, and health care use among the married elderly

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A random world is a fair world

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Actual Versus Perceived HIV Testing Norms, and Personal HIV Testing Uptake: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Rural Uganda

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Advances in palliative care research methodology

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Alone in the crowd: the structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network

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An Empirical Model for Strategic Network Formation ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2010

An exploratory comparison of name generator content: Data from rural India

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Aspirin use and cardiovascular events in social networks

scientific article published on 4 February 2012

Association Between Degrees of Separation in Physician Networks and Surgeons' Use of Perioperative Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Association between social network communities and health behavior: an observational sociocentric network study of latrine ownership in rural India.

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Association between widowhood and risk of diagnosis with a sexually transmitted infection in older adults

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Association of Facebook Use With Compromised Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Assortative mating at loci under recent natural selection in humans

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Assortative mixing and resource inequality enhance collective welfare in sharing networks

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Attitude and self-reported practice regarding hospice referral in a national sample of internists

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Bias and asymmetric loss in expert forecasts: a study of physician prognostic behavior with respect to patient survival.

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership Role Occupancy

scientific article published on 10 September 2012

Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample

scientific article published on December 2013

Cancer metastasis networks and the prediction of progression patterns

scientific article published on September 2009

Care after the onset of serious illness: a novel claims-based dataset exploiting substantial cross-set linkages to study end-of-life care

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Clinical AIDS research that evaluates cost effectiveness in the developing world

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Cohort of birth modifies the association between FTO genotype and BMI.

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Collective communication and behaviour in response to uncertain 'Danger' in network experiments

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Commentary—Contagion in Prescribing Behavior Among Networks of Doctors

Complexities in prognostication in advanced cancer: "to help them live their lives the way they want to".

scientific article published in July 2003

Computational social science

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Construct validity of medicare chemotherapy claims: the case of 5FU.

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Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

Cooperation, decision time, and culture: Online experiments with American and Indian participants

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Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks

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Correlated genotypes in friendship networks

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Criterion validity of Medicare chemotherapy claims in Cancer and Leukemia Group B breast and lung cancer trial participants

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Cyclic motifs in the Sardex monetary network

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Desire for weight loss, weight-related social contact, and body mass outcomes

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Detecting emotional contagion in massive social networks

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Disease-specific patterns of hospice and related healthcare use in an incidence cohort of seriously ill elderly patients

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Do village-level normative and network factors help explain spatial variability in adolescent childbearing in rural Honduras?

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Don't just blame the system

scientific article published in April 2008

Dueling biological and social contagions

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

Dynamic social networks promote cooperation in experiments with humans

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Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study

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Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of individuals diagnosed with serious illness

scientific article published on 23 March 2005

Effects of proximate foreclosed properties on individuals' systolic blood pressure in Massachusetts, 1987 to 2008.

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Effects of proximate foreclosed properties on individuals' weight gain in Massachusetts, 1987-2008

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

Egocentric social network structure, health, and pro-social behaviors in a national panel study of Americans

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Emotions as infectious diseases in a large social network: the SISa model.

scientific article published on 7 July 2010

Estimating peer effects in longitudinal dyadic data using instrumental variables

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Estimating peer effects on health in social networks: a response to Cohen-Cole and Fletcher; and Trogdon, Nonnemaker, and Pais

scientific article published on 09 August 2008

Eurekometrics: analyzing the nature of discovery

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Evolution of in-group favoritism

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Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers

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Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect: Evidence from Hunter-Gatherers

Exploiting social influence to magnify population-level behaviour change in maternal and child health: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of network targeting algorithms in rural Honduras

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

Exposure, hazard, and survival analysis of diffusion on social networks

scientific article published on 29 April 2018

Favorable cardiac risk among elderly breast carcinoma survivors

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Food insecurity, social networks and symptoms of depression among men and women in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional, population-based study

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Formation of raiding parties for intergroup violence is mediated by social network structure

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

Friendship and natural selection

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Friendships Moderate an Association Between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology

scientific article published on January 2010

Genes, Economics, and Happiness

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Geographic constraints on social network groups

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Geographic variation in hospice use in the United States in 2002.

scientific article published on 27 June 2007

Health care in a web

scientific article published on June 2008

Human behavior under economic inequality shapes inequality

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Identifying, recruiting, and retaining seriously-ill patients and their caregivers in longitudinal research

scientific article published on December 2006

Impact of individual and market factors on the timing of initiation of hospice terminal care

scientific article published in May 2000

Income inequality and weight status in US metropolitan areas

scientific article published on 11 January 2005

Individual and spousal unemployment as predictors of smoking and drinking behavior

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Induction of social contagion for diverse outcomes in structured experiments in isolated villages

scientific article published on 02 May 2024

Inequality and visibility of wealth in experimental social networks

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Infectious disease modeling of social contagion in networks.

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Influence of a patient transfer network of US inpatient facilities on the incidence of nosocomial infections

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Initial assessment of a new instrument to measure quality of life at the end of life.

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Interdisciplinary Case Study: Understanding the Cooperation of Humans and Robots through the Collaboration of Social and Computer Scientists

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Intimate partner violence norms cluster within households: an observational social network study in rural Honduras

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Lack of sexual behavior disclosure may distort STI testing outcomes

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Leadership Insularity: A New Measure of Connectivity Between Central Nodes in Networks

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Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2017

Longitudinal analysis of large social networks: estimating the effect of health traits on changes in friendship ties ⬇️

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Machine behaviour

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Mapping physician networks with self-reported and administrative data

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Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use.

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Measuring clinically significant chemotherapy-related toxicities using Medicare claims from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) trial participants

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Measuring disease-free survival and cancer relapse using Medicare claims from CALGB breast cancer trial participants (companion to 9344)

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Measuring quality of life at the end of life: validation of the QUAL-E.

scientific article published in March 2004

Medical modelling of obesity: a transition from action to experience in a 20th century American medical textbook

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Medicine may change our genes

scientific article published on May 2008

Mindfulness Meditation Activates Altruism

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Minimal social network effects evident in cancer screening behavior

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Model of genetic variation in human social networks

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Modeling the Role of Networks and Individual Differences in Inter-Group Violence

scientific article published in February 2016

Molecular Genetics and Economics

scientific article published in January 2011

Mortality after the hospitalization of a spouse

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Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives

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Neighborhood effects on posthospitalization mortality: a population-based cohort study of the elderly in Chicago

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Neighborhoods matter: a population-based study of provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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Network Engineering Using Autonomous Agents Increases Cooperation in Human Groups

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Network multipliers and public health

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics

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Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

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On the prospects for a blame-free medical culture

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Online social integration is associated with reduced mortality risk

scientific article (publication date: 15 November 2016)

Parental influence on substance use in adolescent social networks

scientific article published on December 2012

Patient-Sharing Networks of Physicians and Health Care Utilization and Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Pay-it-forward gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 16 August 2019

Pay-it-forward gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Physician factors in the timing of cancer patient referral to hospice palliative care

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Physician patient-sharing networks and the cost and intensity of care in US hospitals

scientific article published on February 2012

Polio vaccine hesitancy in the networks and neighborhoods of Malegaon, India

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Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of COVID-19 in China

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Population trends and variation in body mass index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort

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Preliminary evidence regarding the hypothesis that the sex ratio at sexual maturity may affect longevity in men ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2010

Prognostication and bioethics

scientific article published in January 1999

Prospective effect of community distress and subcultural orientation on mortality following life-threatening diseases in later life

scientific article published in July 2006

Proximity to food establishments and body mass index in the Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort over 30 years

scientific article published on 30 September 2011

Putting the social into science. Forget about nature vs. nurture. The answer lies in between

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Quality versus quantity of social ties in experimental cooperative networks

scientific article published on January 2013

Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals

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Reasons for choice of referral physician among primary care and specialist physicians.

scientific article published on 16 September 2011

Refinements of a methodology for detecting married couples in the Medicare data

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Resource sharing in technologically defined social networks

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Responsibility and reflection: understanding our responses to perceived errors. A response to Woodward, Lemer and Wu.

scientific article published on 18 September 2009

Same-sex sexual attraction does not spread in adolescent social networks

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Scaling of Prosocial Behavior in Cities

scientific article published in June 2011

Self-comparisons as motivators for healthy behavior

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Self-perception of weight appropriateness in the United States

scientific article published on May 2003

Should IRBs monitor research more strictly?

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Signs of Death

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Social Environment Shapes the Speed of Cooperation.

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Social Network Visualization in Epidemiology.

scientific article published in January 2009

Social connectedness is associated with fibrinogen level in a human social network

scientific article published in August 2016

Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior

scientific article published on 18 June 2012

Social network concordance in food choice among spouses, friends, and siblings.

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Social network correlates of IPV acceptance in rural Honduras and rural Uganda.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Social network determinants of depression

scientific article published on 16 March 2010

Social network predictors of latrine ownership

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Social network sensors for early detection of contagious outbreaks

scientific article published in 2010

Social network targeting to maximise population behaviour change: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

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Social networks and collateral health effects

scientific article published on July 2004

Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

scientific article (publication date: 25 January 2012)

Social networks and health: a systematic review of sociocentric network studies in low- and middle-income countries

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Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy: a cross-sectional study of 176 villages in rural Honduras

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Social norms, misperceptions, and mosquito net use: a population-based, cross-sectional study in rural Uganda.

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Social science: Female genital cutting under the spotlight

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Spousal illness burden is associated with delayed use of hospice care in terminally ill patients

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Spreading paths in partially observed social networks

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Static network structure can stabilize human cooperation

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Surgeon peer network characteristics and adoption of new imaging techniques in breast cancer: A study of perioperative MRI

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

The "average" treatment effect: A construct ripe for retirement. A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

The Impact of Social Contagion on Physician Adoption of Advanced Imaging Tests in Breast Cancer.

scientific article published on August 2017

The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics

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The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years

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The Structure of Negative Social Ties in Rural Village Networks

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

The anthroposphere is changing

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

The collective dynamics of smoking in a large social network

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The effect of widowhood on mortality by the causes of death of both spouses

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The emotional toll of spousal morbidity and mortality

scientific article published in September 2007

The evolution of homophily

scientific article published on 13 November 2012

The health impact of health care on families: a matched cohort study of hospice use by decedents and mortality outcomes in surviving, widowed spouses

scientific article published in August 2003

The impact of cellular networks on disease comorbidity

scientific article published on 7 April 2009

The implications of human metabolic network topology for disease comorbidity

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The lack of effect of market structure on hospice use.

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The performance of different lookback periods and sources of information for Charlson comorbidity adjustment in Medicare claims.

scientific article published in November 1999

The provision of hospital chaplaincy in the United States: a national overview

scientific article published on June 2008

The social network context of HIV stigma: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

The spread of alcohol consumption behavior in a large social network

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The spread of sleep loss influences drug use in adolescent social networks

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This allergies hysteria is just nuts

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Too quietly into the night

scientific article published on 5 August 2008

Triadic embeddedness structure in family networks predicts mobile communication response to a sudden natural disaster

scientific article published in 2021

Using administrative data to identify naturally occurring networks of physicians

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Using friends as sensors to detect global-scale contagious outbreaks.

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Valuing the well connected

scientific article published on 23 September 2008

Variation in patient-sharing networks of physicians across the United States

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Viral perturbations of host networks reflect disease etiology

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Vulnerable robots positively shape human conversational dynamics in a human-robot team

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

When networks can teach us about drug use.

scientific article published in February 2008

Widowhood Effects in Voter Participation

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Widowhood and mortality among the elderly: the modifying role of neighborhood concentration of widowed individuals

scientific article published on February 2008

Wives and ex-wives: a new test for homogamy bias in the widowhood effect

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