E J Bienenstock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E J Bienenstock |
| GIVEN NAMES | E J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bienenstock |
| SIGNATURE | BIENENSTOCK E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8747-8872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Geoforensic Palynology Search Models and Human-Mediated Secondary Pollen Deposition
Forensic palynology involves using pollen on a person or object of interest or found at a crime scene to reconstruct history. Advances in genetic pollen identification techniques have spurred further research efforts in developing the geodatabases and models required to link those identified pollens to specific places or times. Many of these use plant species distribution models as a proxy for pollen presence in a landscape, an assumption that ho…
Geoforensics with Pollen Quantification: A Spatial Perspective
Geoforensic science investigates the location and time of criminal occurrences by integrating multiple fields, including geography, criminology, ecology, biology, and geology. The ubiquity, durability, and spatial-temporal predictability make pollen a frequently used biomarker in geoforensic investigations to help determine the provenance of hard-to-trace items, including computers, counterfeit products, digging equipment, clothing, and undetonat…
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California
Measurement of community social capital most often relies on the self-reports of individuals aggregated to the community level. This reliance on validated survey-based methods for operationalizing social capital data collection is not always feasible. As a consequence, recent studies exploring data obtainable from open sources have utilized features of the built environment as a proxy. Although gaining in popularity, this approach is controversia…
Identifying the spatial footprint of pollen distributions using the Geoforensic Interdiction (Gofind) model
Eigenvector centralization as a measure of structural bias in information aggregation
The principal eigenvector of the adjacency matrix is widely used to complement degree, betweenness and closeness measures of network centrality. Employing eigenvector centrality as an individual level metric underutilizes this measure. Here we demonstrate how eigenvector centralization, used as a network-level metric, models the potential, or limitation, for the diffusion of novel information within a network. We relate eigenvector centralization…
Massively Parallel Globalization: Explorations in Self-Organization and World Politics
Structural Implications of Reciprocal Exchange: A Power-Dependence Approach
This paper presents and tests a general model to predict emergent exchange patterns and power differences in reciprocal exchange networks when individual actors follow the norm of reciprocity. With an interesting qualification, the experimental results reported here support the power-dependence approach (Emerson 1972a, b): those who acquire the most resources are connected to others who are dependent on them for rewards. Although, as Molm has abu…
A Typology for Understanding the Connections Among Different Forms of Social Capital
Critics have argued that the term social capital is too vague or general to be a useful concept. Recognizing the need for clarification, the authors distill the conceptual discussions about social capital to argue that there are three components_network structure, trust and reciprocity, and resources_that are associated with but vary in degree and salience for all forms of social capital. These three components should be considered continua along…
Comment on Mark, ASR, June 2002: Explication of the Cultural Transmission Model
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 15
Women's participation in the labor force: The role of social networks
Bridging Social Networks and Female Labor-Force Participation in a Multiethnic Metropolis
Using data from a multi-city survey of urban inequality, we assess the effects of bridging social networks—ties that connect individuals to different worlds of information, resources, and opportunities—on Black, Hispanic, and White female labor-force participation in metropolitan Los Angeles. Our findings indicate that these types of networks are far more important in explaining the labor-market experiences of females in Los Angeles than the kind…
Latent classes in exchange networks: Sets of positions with common interests
While it is known that positions in exchange networks are interdependent, little work has been done to develop a systematic procedure to determine the type and pattern of these interdependencies. Wording from an insight by Shubik (1984), this paper proposes a canonical form for such interdependence. The model does not depend on the existence of pre‐existing categories of complementary positions, such as buyers and sellers or men and women. The mo…
Response to `Network Games
Network Exchange as a Cooperative Game
This paper presents parallels between network exchange experiments and N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, to show how game theory can assist network exchange researchers, not only in predicting outcomes, but in properly specifying the scope of their models. It illustrates how utility, strategy and c-games, concepts found in game theory, could be used by exchange theorists to help them reflect on their models and improve their r…
An Empirical Test of the Cultural Capital Hypothesis
Using data from the Multi-City Survey of Urban Inequality, an exploratory, empirical analysis of the cultural capital hypothesis was conducted. The analyses indicate that, while the types of cultural influences cited by proponents of this thesis clearly have negative effects on employment when viewed in isolation from other factors, they are not significant when statistical controls for human capital variables are incorporated into the model. Our…
When Rationality Fails: Unstable Exchange Networks with Empty Cores
Power differences within networks can arise when some positions have many alternative transaction partners who themselves have few alternatives. Recent social psychological models developed to predict power in these situations have assumed that stable transaction patterns will emerge in these networks. These models depend on the assumption that stable exchange patterns will develop. Using the game theoretic concept of the core, we show that in so…
Assignment games, chromatic number, and exchange theory
The exchange networks that social psychologists have studied can usefully be represented as game theoretic 2‐sided assignment games. Conceiving of these networks as 2‐sided assignment games opens up the possibility of studying N‐sided assignment games and games without cores. 2‐sided assignment games are special in that they always have cores, stable solutions in which every individual and subgroup behave rationally. The implicit assignment of po…
Game-Theory Models for Exchange Networks: Experimental Results
The goal of current exchange-network literature is to develop algorithms, loosely based on rational choice, that predict how resources are distributed through exchange networks and which positions have power to accumulate resources. These objectives closely resemble those of N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, which are based on formal explicit models of rational choice. Experimentally, power is exhibited when a position can ama…
The core as a solution to exclusionary networks
The effect of network density and homogeneity on attitude polarization
Game-Theory Models for Exchange Networks: Experimental Results
The goal of current exchange-network literature is to develop algorithms, loosely based on rational choice, that predict how resources are distributed through exchange networks and which positions have power to accumulate resources. These objectives closely resemble those of N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, which are based on formal explicit models of rational choice. Experimentally, power is exhibited when a position can ama…
Bridging Social Networks and Female Labor-Force Participation in a Multiethnic Metropolis
Using data from a multi-city survey of urban inequality, we assess the effects of bridging social networks—ties that connect individuals to different worlds of information, resources, and opportunities—on Black, Hispanic, and White female labor-force participation in metropolitan Los Angeles. Our findings indicate that these types of networks are far more important in explaining the labor-market experiences of females in Los Angeles than the kind…
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
When Rationality Fails: Unstable Exchange Networks with Empty Cores
Power differences within networks can arise when some positions have many alternative transaction partners who themselves have few alternatives. Recent social psychological models developed to predict power in these situations have assumed that stable transaction patterns will emerge in these networks. These models depend on the assumption that stable exchange patterns will develop. Using the game theoretic concept of the core, we show that in so…
An Empirical Test of the Cultural Capital Hypothesis
Using data from the Multi-City Survey of Urban Inequality, an exploratory, empirical analysis of the cultural capital hypothesis was conducted. The analyses indicate that, while the types of cultural influences cited by proponents of this thesis clearly have negative effects on employment when viewed in isolation from other factors, they are not significant when statistical controls for human capital variables are incorporated into the model. Our…
A Typology for Understanding the Connections Among Different Forms of Social Capital
Critics have argued that the term social capital is too vague or general to be a useful concept. Recognizing the need for clarification, the authors distill the conceptual discussions about social capital to argue that there are three components_network structure, trust and reciprocity, and resources_that are associated with but vary in degree and salience for all forms of social capital. These three components should be considered continua along…
Network Exchange as a Cooperative Game
This paper presents parallels between network exchange experiments and N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, to show how game theory can assist network exchange researchers, not only in predicting outcomes, but in properly specifying the scope of their models. It illustrates how utility, strategy and c-games, concepts found in game theory, could be used by exchange theorists to help them reflect on their models and improve their r…
Assignment games, chromatic number, and exchange theory
The exchange networks that social psychologists have studied can usefully be represented as game theoretic 2‐sided assignment games. Conceiving of these networks as 2‐sided assignment games opens up the possibility of studying N‐sided assignment games and games without cores. 2‐sided assignment games are special in that they always have cores, stable solutions in which every individual and subgroup behave rationally. The implicit assignment of po…
Eigenvector centralization as a measure of structural bias in information aggregation
The principal eigenvector of the adjacency matrix is widely used to complement degree, betweenness and closeness measures of network centrality. Employing eigenvector centrality as an individual level metric underutilizes this measure. Here we demonstrate how eigenvector centralization, used as a network-level metric, models the potential, or limitation, for the diffusion of novel information within a network. We relate eigenvector centralization…
Structural Implications of Reciprocal Exchange: A Power-Dependence Approach
This paper presents and tests a general model to predict emergent exchange patterns and power differences in reciprocal exchange networks when individual actors follow the norm of reciprocity. With an interesting qualification, the experimental results reported here support the power-dependence approach (Emerson 1972a, b): those who acquire the most resources are connected to others who are dependent on them for rewards. Although, as Molm has abu…
Latent classes in exchange networks: Sets of positions with common interests
While it is known that positions in exchange networks are interdependent, little work has been done to develop a systematic procedure to determine the type and pattern of these interdependencies. Wording from an insight by Shubik (1984), this paper proposes a canonical form for such interdependence. The model does not depend on the existence of pre‐existing categories of complementary positions, such as buyers and sellers or men and women. The mo…
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California
Measurement of community social capital most often relies on the self-reports of individuals aggregated to the community level. This reliance on validated survey-based methods for operationalizing social capital data collection is not always feasible. As a consequence, recent studies exploring data obtainable from open sources have utilized features of the built environment as a proxy. Although gaining in popularity, this approach is controversia…
The effect of network density and homogeneity on attitude polarization
The core as a solution to exclusionary networks
Assignment games, chromatic number, and exchange theory
The exchange networks that social psychologists have studied can usefully be represented as game theoretic 2‐sided assignment games. Conceiving of these networks as 2‐sided assignment games opens up the possibility of studying N‐sided assignment games and games without cores. 2‐sided assignment games are special in that they always have cores, stable solutions in which every individual and subgroup behave rationally. The implicit assignment of po…
Game-Theory Models for Exchange Networks: Experimental Results
The goal of current exchange-network literature is to develop algorithms, loosely based on rational choice, that predict how resources are distributed through exchange networks and which positions have power to accumulate resources. These objectives closely resemble those of N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, which are based on formal explicit models of rational choice. Experimentally, power is exhibited when a position can ama…
An Empirical Test of the Cultural Capital Hypothesis
Using data from the Multi-City Survey of Urban Inequality, an exploratory, empirical analysis of the cultural capital hypothesis was conducted. The analyses indicate that, while the types of cultural influences cited by proponents of this thesis clearly have negative effects on employment when viewed in isolation from other factors, they are not significant when statistical controls for human capital variables are incorporated into the model. Our…
When Rationality Fails: Unstable Exchange Networks with Empty Cores
Power differences within networks can arise when some positions have many alternative transaction partners who themselves have few alternatives. Recent social psychological models developed to predict power in these situations have assumed that stable transaction patterns will emerge in these networks. These models depend on the assumption that stable exchange patterns will develop. Using the game theoretic concept of the core, we show that in so…
Latent classes in exchange networks: Sets of positions with common interests
While it is known that positions in exchange networks are interdependent, little work has been done to develop a systematic procedure to determine the type and pattern of these interdependencies. Wording from an insight by Shubik (1984), this paper proposes a canonical form for such interdependence. The model does not depend on the existence of pre‐existing categories of complementary positions, such as buyers and sellers or men and women. The mo…
Response to `Network Games
Network Exchange as a Cooperative Game
This paper presents parallels between network exchange experiments and N-person cooperative games with transferable utility, to show how game theory can assist network exchange researchers, not only in predicting outcomes, but in properly specifying the scope of their models. It illustrates how utility, strategy and c-games, concepts found in game theory, could be used by exchange theorists to help them reflect on their models and improve their r…
Women's participation in the labor force: The role of social networks
Bridging Social Networks and Female Labor-Force Participation in a Multiethnic Metropolis
Using data from a multi-city survey of urban inequality, we assess the effects of bridging social networks—ties that connect individuals to different worlds of information, resources, and opportunities—on Black, Hispanic, and White female labor-force participation in metropolitan Los Angeles. Our findings indicate that these types of networks are far more important in explaining the labor-market experiences of females in Los Angeles than the kind…
Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 15
Comment on Mark, ASR, June 2002: Explication of the Cultural Transmission Model
Activating Performance Expectations and Status Differences Through Gift Exchange: Experimental Results
Early theoretical work on social exchange focused on how exchange relations generate social structural outcomes. Specifically, gift giving was said to evoke status structures. No experimental evidence exists to verify or refute the notion that gift giving during exchange processes generates status hierarchies. We present experimental results demonstrating the emergence of status inequalities directly from social exchanges in dyads. Our findings s…
Structural Implications of Reciprocal Exchange: A Power-Dependence Approach
This paper presents and tests a general model to predict emergent exchange patterns and power differences in reciprocal exchange networks when individual actors follow the norm of reciprocity. With an interesting qualification, the experimental results reported here support the power-dependence approach (Emerson 1972a, b): those who acquire the most resources are connected to others who are dependent on them for rewards. Although, as Molm has abu…
A Typology for Understanding the Connections Among Different Forms of Social Capital
Critics have argued that the term social capital is too vague or general to be a useful concept. Recognizing the need for clarification, the authors distill the conceptual discussions about social capital to argue that there are three components_network structure, trust and reciprocity, and resources_that are associated with but vary in degree and salience for all forms of social capital. These three components should be considered continua along…
Massively Parallel Globalization: Explorations in Self-Organization and World Politics
Identifying the spatial footprint of pollen distributions using the Geoforensic Interdiction (Gofind) model
Eigenvector centralization as a measure of structural bias in information aggregation
The principal eigenvector of the adjacency matrix is widely used to complement degree, betweenness and closeness measures of network centrality. Employing eigenvector centrality as an individual level metric underutilizes this measure. Here we demonstrate how eigenvector centralization, used as a network-level metric, models the potential, or limitation, for the diffusion of novel information within a network. We relate eigenvector centralization…
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital: A spatial exploration into model specification and measurement impacts in Los Angeles, California
Measurement of community social capital most often relies on the self-reports of individuals aggregated to the community level. This reliance on validated survey-based methods for operationalizing social capital data collection is not always feasible. As a consequence, recent studies exploring data obtainable from open sources have utilized features of the built environment as a proxy. Although gaining in popularity, this approach is controversia…
Geoforensics with Pollen Quantification: A Spatial Perspective
Geoforensic science investigates the location and time of criminal occurrences by integrating multiple fields, including geography, criminology, ecology, biology, and geology. The ubiquity, durability, and spatial-temporal predictability make pollen a frequently used biomarker in geoforensic investigations to help determine the provenance of hard-to-trace items, including computers, counterfeit products, digging equipment, clothing, and undetonat…
Geoforensic Palynology Search Models and Human-Mediated Secondary Pollen Deposition
Forensic palynology involves using pollen on a person or object of interest or found at a crime scene to reconstruct history. Advances in genetic pollen identification techniques have spurred further research efforts in developing the geodatabases and models required to link those identified pollens to specific places or times. Many of these use plant species distribution models as a proxy for pollen presence in a landscape, an assumption that ho…
Computer Science (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social Power and Status Dynamics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Mathematical economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Game Theory and Applications (5 works)