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You have successfully completed the experiment.

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The goal of this research was to examine how the position of early adopters (those who first try something new) and the characteristics of the network structure affects how quickly innovations or a new behavior spreads through a social network. For that you played a coordination game where your earnings depended on matching choices with your neighbours in the network.

The Network

You played in a group of 24 positions. To test our hypotheses, the group was composed of:

The use of the bots allowed us to manipulate the behaviour of the specific early adopters positions throughout phase 1 and 2:

Phase 1

Bots followed the majority choice of their neighbors. This established a baseline behavior for the entire group.

Phase 2

Bots switched to the alternative option that was not established in phase 1. We measured if this minority could convince the rest of the group to switch.

In addition we manipulated two factors across different groups: the structure of the social network (some networks had tight clusters of connections, others had random connections) and if bots were placed in highly connected (powerful) positions or in random positions within the network. Our Hypotheses are that early adopters placed on powerful positions accelerates social tipping compared to a random positioning and that the effect is even stronger in a less clustered network.

Why is this important?

This research helps us understand how to more effectively promote beneficial societal changes, such as adopting sustainable behaviors to address climate change.

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If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this research, its procedures, risks and benefits, contact the Protocol Director, Sara Constantino, smc77@stanford.edu

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