Centre for Social Sciences Computational Social Science - Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (CSS-RECENS)

Momentum (Lendület) and Hungarian ERC grantees protest against the decision of NKFIH that altered the ranking of proposals set up by scientific expert bodies for OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) fundamental research proposals. This interference has been carried out by NKFIH officials without consulting the expert bodies. The full text of the open statement can be found on the website of Lendület grantees: https://www.lendulet2019.info/​

The paper "The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle" of Dustin J. Penn and Szabolcs Számadó has been published on Biological Reviews.

Available online: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12563

Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration

Conference at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest :: 16–17 November, 2020

Call for conference papers

The paper "Relational Integration in Schools Through Seating Assignments" of Márta Radó and Károly Takács has been published on Journal Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

Available online: DOI: 10.18564/jasss.4115 

Tracking the Effects of Parenthood on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Hungary

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-019-00166-y

The paper of Simone Righi with Elias Carroni and Paolo Pin titled "Bring a Friend! Privately or Publicly?" is published in Management Science. 

Available online here: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3282

The article titled "The impact of hypocrisy on opinion formation: A dynamic model" by Michael T. Gastner, Károly Takács, Máté Gulyás, Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky, Beáta Oborny is published by PLOS ONE. 

All members of CSS-RECENS congratulate our fellow researcher Júlia Koltai, for having received the prestigious MTA Premium Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Her dedication, hard work and previous achievements have brought her to international recognition recently. One of her newest publications is featured on the main site of the Social Networks journal (IF: 2.949) as the second most downloaded article. Thanks to the MTA Premium Postdoctoral Fellowship she can continue her work in CSS-RECENS in Hungary with proper recognition and support. 

Members of CSS-RECENS condemn politically motivated accusations under any circumstances. We are very proud of her excellent track record and academic achievements that make the reception of the Fellowship fully deserved, and Júlia Koltai an invaluable member of our team.

Gastner, M.T., Takács, K., Gulyás, M., Szvetelszky Zs., and Oborny, B. 2019. The impact of hypocrisy on opinion formation: a dynamic model. PLOS One, 14 (6), e0218729.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218729

Limits to inferring status from friendship relations

András Vörös, Per Block, Zsófia Boda

Social Networks

Volume 59, October 2019, Pages 77-97

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.05.007