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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
Volume 107, Issue 1, Pages 15-28Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.12.003
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cognitive schema; small worlds; friendship networks
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Given the complexity of organizing and keeping track of even a small organizational network, boundedly rational people may have learned to use small world principles in perceiving friendship networks: arrange people in dense clusters, and connect the clusters with short paths. Analysis of 116 perceived friendship networks from four different organizations showed that these perceived networks exhibited greater small world properties than the actual friendship networks. Further, people perceived more friendship clustering than actually existed, and attributed more popularity and brokerage to the perceivedly-popular than to the actually-popular. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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