Forbidden triads and creative success in jazz: the Miles Davis factor

Abstract This article argues for the importance of forbidden triads – open triads with high-weight edges – in predicting success in creative fields. Forbidden triads had been treated as a residual category beyond closed and open triads, yet I argue that these structures provide opportunities to comb...

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Main Author: Balazs Vedres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Applied Network Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41109-017-0051-2