Duncan J. Watts

Affiliations: 
Columbia University, New York, NY 
Area:
General, Cultural Anthropology
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Cross-listing: Anthropology Tree - Physics Tree

Parents

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Dennis J Isbister research assistant Physics, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy (Chemistry Tree)
David F. Delchamps grad student 1997 Cornell (E-Tree)
 (Dissertation committee member)
Richard H. Rand grad student 1997 Cornell (E-Tree)
 (Dissertation committee member)
Steven Henry Strogatz grad student 1997 Cornell (MathTree)
 (Dissertation chair - The structure and dynamics of small-world systems)

Children

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Gueorgi Kossinets grad student 2006 Columbia (Anthropology Tree)
Matthew J. Salganik grad student 2007 Columbia
Daniel H. Neilson grad student 2009 Columbia (Anthropology Tree)
Mark E Whiting post-doc 2019- Penn (Computer Science Tree)

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Steven Henry Strogatz collaborator (MathTree)
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Whiting ME, Watts DJ. (2024) A framework for quantifying individual and collective common sense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121: e2309535121
Almaatouq A, Griffiths TL, Suchow JW, et al. (2022) Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1-55
Hofman JM, Watts DJ, Athey S, et al. (2021) Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science. Nature
Almaatouq A, Becker J, Houghton JP, et al. (2021) Empirica: a virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments. Behavior Research Methods
Lazer DMJ, Pentland A, Watts DJ, et al. (2020) Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities. Science (New York, N.Y.). 369: 1060-1062
Salganik MJ, Lundberg I, Kindel AT, et al. (2020) Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Lazer DMJ, Baum MA, Benkler Y, et al. (2018) The science of fake news. Science (New York, N.Y.). 359: 1094-1096
Hofman JM, Sharma A, Watts DJ. (2017) Prediction and explanation in social systems. Science (New York, N.Y.). 355: 486-488
Watts DJ. (2017) Should social science be more solution-oriented? Nature Human Behaviour. 1
Goel S, Anderson A, Hofman J, et al. (2016) The structural virality of online diffusion Management Science. 62: 180-196
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