No Sword Bites So Fiercly as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, but Enhances Cooperation (EVILTONGUE)

The book Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems: Toward a Science of Interaction is out on 1 August, 2017 from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, including a chapter by our members, Simone Righi and Károly Takács with the title Parallel versus Sequential Update and the Evolution of Cooperation with the Assistance of Emotional Strategies.
Reference:
Righi, S. and Takács, K. 2017. Parallel versus Sequential Update and the Evolution of Cooperation with the Assistance of Emotional Strategies. In: Cordier, S., Ertur, C., Debarsy, N., Lucas, D., Nemo, F., Poisson, G., and Vrain, C. (eds.): Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems: Toward a Science of Interaction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/understanding-interactions-in-complex-systems

The paper of Simone Righi and Károly Takács has been published in the Proceedings of ECMS

Righi S., Takacs K. 2017. Blind vs. embedded indirect reciprocity and the evolution of cooperation. In: Zoltay Paprika, Z.; Horák, P.; Váradi, K.; Zwierczyk, P. T.; Vidovics-Dancs, Á., and Rádics, J. P. (eds.): Proceedings of European Conference on Modelling and Simulations 2017 (ISBN: 978-0-9932440-4-9).

An international workshiop with the title "Field Experiments in Education" takes place on Central European University on June 1-2, 2017. One of the organizers is researcher of our group, Tamás Keller.

Speakers representing our group: Károly Takács, Tamás Keller and Márta Radó.

For more information please follow this link: https://ias.ceu.edu/node/639

The article "A Scientific Network Analysis of Business Organizations: Research Design and Practices" by Eliza Bodor-Eranus, Bálint György Kubik and Boróka Pápay has been published in the book called "Current Challenges in Social Sciences". 

Article of our members, Boróka Pápay and Bálint György Kubik ("The Boundaries and External Connections of the Hyperlink Network of Hungarian Websites from Romania") has been recently published in the first issue of the 3rd volume of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 

To read the first issue of of the 3nd volume of Intersections.EEJSP please click here!

The article "The miracle of peer review and development in science: an agent-based model" by Simone Righi & Károly Takács has been published in Scientometrics. 

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-017-2244-y

The article "Cluster analysis of multiplex networks: Defining composite network measures" by András Vörös and Tom Snijders has been published in Social Networks and is available online at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873315301209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.01.002

“We are on the move” Together with other institutes of the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in January 2017 we are moving from the Castle to a new location. The new building is on the Pest side, close to the National Theatre.

Our new address is Tóth Kálmán u. 4., H-1097 Budapest.

Structural holes in the local governments’ tendering activity network in a Hungarian sub-region

http://www.socio.hu/en/space-and-society-4-2016 

Are you interested in visiting an ERC grantee and collaborating with our research team?

We are happy to host visiting scholars who are working on the topics that match our interests in the research funded by an ERC Grant. We use various methods that include agent-based models, advanced models of network dynamics, and text analytics to study the relationship between gossip, reputation, and cooperation. Please consult our homepage for further information on the project.