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Friday, October 06, 2023

  • Dissertation Defense: Understanding outgroup aversion effects on innovation adoption and polarization in network environments

    Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Bruce Miller for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Individuals' decisions to adopt an innovation can be influenced by the group identity of previous adopters or non-adopters in their social network. Previous research in innovation diffusion considered initial innovators and word-of-mouth imitator effects using analytical models. Simulations and agent-based models have been developed to address …

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