G Robins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1114 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Robins |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Robins |
| FIRMA | ROBINS G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7538-5804 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 958 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Exponential random graph models and pendant-triangle statistics
Multilevel network interventions
A statistical model for the analysis of mobility tables as weighted networks with an application to faculty hiring networks
Low carbon readiness in social context
Low carbon readiness (LCR) is an aspect of environmental identity, an individual citizen’s willingness to reduce carbon emissions and transition to low carbon lifestyle as a personal striving . Nevertheless, individuals’ personal strivings are strongly influenced by the social context in which they are situated. We propose the social context of environmental identity model, which postulates that social contexts for LCR have a nested structure. Th…
Data collection for social network research
Perceived friendship network of socially anxious adolescent girls
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies
Norm talk and human cooperation
Norm talk is verbal communication that explicitly states or implicitly implies a social norm. To investigate its ability to shape cultural dynamics, 2 types of norm talk were examined: injunction, which explicitly states what should be done, and gossip, which implies a norm by stating an action approved or disapproved of by the communicator. In 2 experiments, participants engaged in norm talk in repeated public goods games. Norm talk was found to…
Embedding time in positions
Digital data enable researchers to obtain fine-grained temporal information about social interactions. However, positional measures used in social network analysis (e.g., degree centrality, reachability, betweenness) are not well suited to these time-stamped interaction data because they ignore sequence and time of interactions. While new temporal measures have been developed, they consider time and sequence separately. Building on formal algebra…
Computational Social Psychology
This chapter provides a broad and selective introduction to diverse literatures on computational approaches to cultural dynamics. It explains the social psychological models of cultural dynamics, and then move to two prominent approaches to cultural dynamics— Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination and evolutionary game theoretic approaches to evolution of cooperation. These approaches focus on complementary aspects of cultural dynamics, and th…
The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social-ecological systems
Barnes, M. L., Ö. Bodin, A. M. Guerrero, R. J. McAllister, S. M. Alexander, and G. Robins. 2017. The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social–ecological systems. Ecology and Society 22(4):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09769-220416
Reaching Out from a Small Scientific Community
Collaboration among scientists from different fields or countries is important for scientific progress in general, particularly for scientists working in small peripheral scientific communities. The aim of this study was to investigate the network effects in three disciplinary scientific communities in social sciences in Croatia on the probability of scientists to establish co-authorship/collaboration outside the community. Co-authorship data fro…
Snowball sampling for estimating exponential random graph models for large networks
Introduction to multilevel social networks
Social selection models for multilevel networks
Diversity and Community Can Coexist
We examine the (in)compatibility of diversity and sense of community by means of agent-based models based on the well-known Schelling model of residential segregation and Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. We find that diversity and highly clustered social networks, on the assumptions of social tie formation based on spatial proximity and homophily, are incompatible when agent features are immutable, and this holds even for multiple indepen…
Theorizing benefits and constraints in collaborative environmental governance
Bodin, Ö., G. Robins, R. R. J. McAllister, A. Guerrero, B. Crona, M. Tengö, and M. Lubell. 2016. Theorizing benefits and constraints in collaborative environmental governance: a transdisciplinary social-ecological network approach for empirical investigations. Ecology and Society 21(1):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08368-210140
Organizational learning across multi-level networks
Doing Social Network Research
The difference with social networks research Fundamental network concepts and ideas Thinking about networks: Research questions and study design Social systems and data structures: relational ties and actor attributes Network observation and measurement The empirical context of network data collection Ethical issues for social networks research Network visualization: What it can and cannot do A review of social network analytic methods Drawing co…
Relational event models for social learning in Moocs
Hepatitis C transmission and treatment as prevention – The role of the injecting network
Network Statistical Models for Language Learning Contexts
As part of the shift within second language acquisition (SLA) research toward complex systems thinking, researchers have called for investigations of social network structure. One strand of social network analysis yet to receive attention in SLA is network statistical models, whereby networks are explained in terms of smaller substructures of social ties. This article offers an overview and instructive demonstration of exponential random graph mo…
Network structure and institutional complexity in an ecology of water management games
Social-ecological systems are governed by a complex of ecology of games featuring multiple actors, policy institutions, and issues, and not just single institutions operating in isolation. We update The ecology of games is operationalized as a bipartite network with actors participating in institutions, and exponential random graph models are used to test hypotheses about the structural features of the network. We found that policy coordination i…
Exponential random graph models for multilevel networks
Bayesian analysis for partially observed network data, missing ties, attributes and actors
New Specifications for Exponential Random Graph Models
The most promising class of statistical models for expressing structural properties of social networks observed at one moment in time is the class of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), also known as p* models. The strong point of these models is that they can represent a variety of structural tendencies, such as transitivity, that define complicated dependence patterns not easily modeled by more basic probability models. Recently, Markov ch…
Neighborhood-Based Models for Social Networks
We argue that social networks can be modeled as the outcome of processes that occur in overlapping local regions of the network, termed local social neighborhoods. Each neighborhood is conceived as a possible site of interaction and corresponds to a subset of possible network ties. In this paper, we discuss hypotheses about the form of these neighborhoods, and we present two new and theoretically plausible ways in which neighborhood-based models …
Testing Policy Theory with Statistical Models of Networks
This article presents a conceptual framework for clarifying the network hypotheses embedded in policy theories and how they relate to macrolevel political institutions and microlevel political behavior. We then describe the role of statistical models of networks for testing these hypotheses, including the problem of operationalizing theoretical concepts with the parameters of statistical models. Examples from existing theories of the policy proce…
Network Governance and Environmental Management
In this article we propose structural preconditions for effective network governance, including network structures that can facilitate effective coordination of action (such as relational and structural embeddedness), and agreement among network actors about goals and actions. We illustrate circumstances in which these preconditions do not seem to be met through a case study of environmental governance of a major water resource – the Swan River i…
Network structure and institutional complexity in an ecology of water management games
Social-ecological systems are governed by a complex of ecology of games featuring multiple actors, policy institutions, and issues, and not just single institutions operating in isolation. We update The ecology of games is operationalized as a bipartite network with actors participating in institutions, and exponential random graph models are used to test hypotheses about the structural features of the network. We found that policy coordination i…
What is network science
This is the beginning of Network Science . The journal has been created because network science is exploding. As is typical for a field in formation, the discussions about its scope, contents, and foundations are intense. On these first few pages of the first issue of our new journal, we would like to share our own vision of the emerging science of networks
Statistical Network Analysis for Analyzing Policy Networks
To analyze social network data using standard statistical approaches is to risk incorrect inference. The dependencies among observations implied in a network conceptualization undermine standard assumptions of the usual general linear models. One of the most quickly expanding areas of social and policy network methodology is the development of statistical modeling approaches that can accommodate such dependent data. In this article, we review thr…
Small and Other Worlds
Using simulation, we contrast global network structures—in particular, small world properties—with the local patterning that generates the network. We show how to simulate Markov graph distributions based on assumptions about simple local social processes. We examine the resulting global structures against appropriate Bernoulli graph distributions and provide examples of stochastic global “worlds,” including small worlds, long path worlds, and no…
Random graph models for temporal processes in social networks
We generalize the graphical modeling approach of p* social influence models to develop discrete time models for the temporal evolution of social networks. Plausible general processes pertaining to network evolution are broadly discussed as a basis for across‐time dependence assumptions. Systematic temporal processes are construed as effects that are homogeneous across the network, and that reflect dynamics inherent in a particular social relation…
Hegemonic and Other Masculinities in Local Social Contexts
This article is a theoretical examination of Connell's social theory of gender, discussing how hegemonic, complicit, subordinate, and marginalized masculinities interact and relate to one another in the men's everyday lives in particular social contexts. Connell's theory is articulated in global terms that need to be localized to examine the actual interactions of men with one another. The theory implies a multilevel framework that the authors de…
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies
Social psychology and social networks
Social psychology and social network research are both centrally concerned with human sociality. Despite some historically significant interactions between the two, these areas of investigation have not been usefully deployed together in recent research endeavours. The present paper attempts to bring out some points of both theoretical and methodological contentions, to characterize the gap between them, to traverse briefly the trajectories of th…
Comparing the validity of multiple social effectiveness constructs in the prediction of managerial job performance
Social effectiveness constructs have been receiving increased attention in organizational research. However, the proliferation of such constructs raises questions of their relative effectiveness as predictors of job performance when used in multivariate comparison. The current study examined four social effectiveness constructs (i.e., self‐monitoring, leadership self‐efficacy, emotional intelligence and political skill) in the prediction of manag…
Diversity and Community Can Coexist
We examine the (in)compatibility of diversity and sense of community by means of agent-based models based on the well-known Schelling model of residential segregation and Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. We find that diversity and highly clustered social networks, on the assumptions of social tie formation based on spatial proximity and homophily, are incompatible when agent features are immutable, and this holds even for multiple indepen…
Adolescents’ Intake of Junk Food
Adolescents’ consumption of low‐nutrient, energy‐dense ( LNED ) food often occurs out of home, and friends may be an important source of influence. This study tested whether observed similarities in LNED food intake among friends result from social influence and also explored underlying psychological mechanisms. Three waves of data were collected over 1 year from Grade 8 students in A ustralia ( N = 378, 54% male), including measures of food inta…
Changing places
Organizational learning across multi-level networks
The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social-ecological systems
Barnes, M. L., Ö. Bodin, A. M. Guerrero, R. J. McAllister, S. M. Alexander, and G. Robins. 2017. The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social–ecological systems. Ecology and Society 22(4):16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09769-220416
Theorizing benefits and constraints in collaborative environmental governance
Bodin, Ö., G. Robins, R. R. J. McAllister, A. Guerrero, B. Crona, M. Tengö, and M. Lubell. 2016. Theorizing benefits and constraints in collaborative environmental governance: a transdisciplinary social-ecological network approach for empirical investigations. Ecology and Society 21(1):40.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08368-210140
Mental health problems in rural contexts
The aim of this review was to determine which sociodemographic, illness-related and psychological/attitudinal factors impact on a person's decision to seek help and the factors associated with attitudes to help-seeking in rural contexts. A computer search of the literature for 1990 – 2006 using the terms “help-seeking” and “mental” found 350 studies. Examination of the abstracts by one of the authors (AK) identified 20 relevant studies, which we …
A Social Network Analysis of Hegemonic and other Masculinities
This paper examines Connell's social theory of gender in two secondary schools. Using statistical models for social networks, relations of power, violence, liking and disliking are investigated with regard to students' male dominance attitudes. While one school demonstrates support for local-level hypotheses articulated for Connell's theory, and thus for the conception of hegemonic masculinity as sitting atop a hierarchy of masculinities, another…
Predynastic egyptian stature and physical proportions
Computational Social Psychology
This chapter provides a broad and selective introduction to diverse literatures on computational approaches to cultural dynamics. It explains the social psychological models of cultural dynamics, and then move to two prominent approaches to cultural dynamics— Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination and evolutionary game theoretic approaches to evolution of cooperation. These approaches focus on complementary aspects of cultural dynamics, and th…
The physical proportions and living stature of New Kingdom pharaohs
Norm talk and human cooperation
Norm talk is verbal communication that explicitly states or implicitly implies a social norm. To investigate its ability to shape cultural dynamics, 2 types of norm talk were examined: injunction, which explicitly states what should be done, and gossip, which implies a norm by stating an action approved or disapproved of by the communicator. In 2 experiments, participants engaged in norm talk in repeated public goods games. Norm talk was found to…
The physical proportions and living stature of New Kingdom pharaohs
Predynastic egyptian stature and physical proportions
Logit Models and Logistic Regressions for Social Networks
This paper generalizes the p * model for dichotomous social network data (Wasserman & Pattison, 1996) to the polytomous case. The generalization is achieved by transforming valued social networks into three-way binary arrays. This data transformation requires a modification of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem that underpins the p * class of models. We demonstrate that, provided that certain (non-observed) data patterns are excluded from considerat…
Network Models for Social Influence Processes
This paper generalizes the p * class of models for social network data to predict individual-level attributes from network ties. The p * model for social networks permits the modeling of social relationships in terms of particular local relational or network configurations. In this paper we present methods for modeling attribute measures in terms of network ties, and so construct p * models for the patterns of social influence within a network. A…
Network models for social selection processes
Random graph models for temporal processes in social networks
We generalize the graphical modeling approach of p* social influence models to develop discrete time models for the temporal evolution of social networks. Plausible general processes pertaining to network evolution are broadly discussed as a basis for across‐time dependence assumptions. Systematic temporal processes are construed as effects that are homogeneous across the network, and that reflect dynamics inherent in a particular social relation…
Neighborhood-Based Models for Social Networks
We argue that social networks can be modeled as the outcome of processes that occur in overlapping local regions of the network, termed local social neighborhoods. Each neighborhood is conceived as a possible site of interaction and corresponds to a subset of possible network ties. In this paper, we discuss hypotheses about the form of these neighborhoods, and we present two new and theoretically plausible ways in which neighborhood-based models …
Small Worlds Among Interlocking Directors
Building models for social space
We propose a quantitative relational framework for social space. We suggest that social space cannot be specified simply in geographical, network or sociocultural terms but, rather, requires an understanding of the interdependence of relationships among different types of social entities, such as persons, groups, sociocultural resources and places. We also suggest that social space cannot be regarded as fixed: unlike the Euclidean space of Newton…
Missing data in networks
Changing places
Small and Other Worlds
Using simulation, we contrast global network structures—in particular, small world properties—with the local patterning that generates the network. We show how to simulate Markov graph distributions based on assumptions about simple local social processes. We examine the resulting global structures against appropriate Bernoulli graph distributions and provide examples of stochastic global “worlds,” including small worlds, long path worlds, and no…
Psychological predispositions and network structure
Comparing the validity of multiple social effectiveness constructs in the prediction of managerial job performance
Social effectiveness constructs have been receiving increased attention in organizational research. However, the proliferation of such constructs raises questions of their relative effectiveness as predictors of job performance when used in multivariate comparison. The current study examined four social effectiveness constructs (i.e., self‐monitoring, leadership self‐efficacy, emotional intelligence and political skill) in the prediction of manag…
New Specifications for Exponential Random Graph Models
The most promising class of statistical models for expressing structural properties of social networks observed at one moment in time is the class of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), also known as p* models. The strong point of these models is that they can represent a variety of structural tendencies, such as transitivity, that define complicated dependence patterns not easily modeled by more basic probability models. Recently, Markov ch…
Advances in exponential random graph (p*) models
An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
Mental health problems in rural contexts
The aim of this review was to determine which sociodemographic, illness-related and psychological/attitudinal factors impact on a person's decision to seek help and the factors associated with attitudes to help-seeking in rural contexts. A computer search of the literature for 1990 – 2006 using the terms “help-seeking” and “mental” found 350 studies. Examination of the abstracts by one of the authors (AK) identified 20 relevant studies, which we …
Closure, connectivity and degree distributions
Social psychology and social networks
Social psychology and social network research are both centrally concerned with human sociality. Despite some historically significant interactions between the two, these areas of investigation have not been usefully deployed together in recent research endeavours. The present paper attempts to bring out some points of both theoretical and methodological contentions, to characterize the gap between them, to traverse briefly the trajectories of th…
Obesity-related behaviors in adolescent friendship networks
Exponential random graph () models for affiliation networks
Hegemonic and Other Masculinities in Local Social Contexts
This article is a theoretical examination of Connell's social theory of gender, discussing how hegemonic, complicit, subordinate, and marginalized masculinities interact and relate to one another in the men's everyday lives in particular social contexts. Connell's theory is articulated in global terms that need to be localized to examine the actual interactions of men with one another. The theory implies a multilevel framework that the authors de…
A Social Network Analysis of Hegemonic and other Masculinities
This paper examines Connell's social theory of gender in two secondary schools. Using statistical models for social networks, relations of power, violence, liking and disliking are investigated with regard to students' male dominance attitudes. While one school demonstrates support for local-level hypotheses articulated for Connell's theory, and thus for the conception of hegemonic masculinity as sitting atop a hierarchy of masculinities, another…
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