If we influence our friends, and they in turn influence their friends, then our actions may affect those we have never met. “To understand who we are, we need to understand how we relate to each other,” argue Harvard social psychologists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler.
If we influence our friends, and they in turn influence their friends, then our actions may affect those we have never met. “To understand who we are, we need to understand how we relate to each other,” argue Harvard social psychologists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. In their book, they describe various types of these connections, talk about the famous psychological experiments that establish the nature of interactions between people, and derive their fundamental laws. Humanity as a whole turns out to be more than the sum of its constituent elements — why? Christakis and Fowler call the attempt to find an answer to this question the great scientific project of the XNUMXst century, which is just beginning. Their work is one of the first bricks of its foundation.
UNITED PRESS, 361 p.