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REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 591-646Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.591
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- EU [IST-1940]
- Future and Emerging Technologies program (IST-FET) of the European Commission
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Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study collective phenomena emerging from the interactions of individuals as elementary units in social structures. A wide list of topics are reviewed ranging from opinion and cultural and language dynamics to crowd behavior, hierarchy formation, human dynamics, and social spreading. The connections between these problems and other, more traditional, topics of statistical physics are highlighted. Comparison of model results with empirical data from social systems are also emphasized.
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