Reformulating a link between social influence network theory and status characteristics theory and a method for testing that link.

• Main Author: Hollander, James Fisher
• Other Authors: Seward, Rudy Ray
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 2006
• Subjects: Social influence.; Social status.; social influence network theory; decision probability; status characteristics; mathematical sign socion
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5271/

The impact of social influence from others on choices made by subjects and how this influence accumulates was studied by secondary analysis of reported experimental data. To explain this impact a link is proposed between social influence network theory (SINT) and status characteristics theory (SCT). The link formula transforms stay probabilities for different status relationships of subject with one disagreeing other agent into horizontal axis coordinate values while stay probabilities of subject given two disagreeing others are transformed into vertical-axis coordinate values corresponding to the horizontal axis values for further analyses. The results support the utility of the proposed link between the two theories.