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James A. Kitts    
Professor, Department of Sociology
Core Faculty, Computational Social Science Institute
University of Massachusetts
200 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9277
jkitts [.at.] soc [.dot.] umass [.dot.] edu

Expertise: Social Networks, Adolescent Health, Social Psychology, Computational Social Science,
Adolescent Friendships, Medical Sociology, Organizations, Demography and Ecology, Social Movements 

Papers Available Here (for complete list, see CV above):

Below I give links to obtain reprints and supplementary materials from my recent publications, links to my pending grants and working papers, and syllabi from my courses:

Liu, Shuyin, Nolin, David, and James A. Kitts. "Name Order Effects in Measuring Adolescent Social              Networks Using Rosters." Social Networks. 76:68-78, 2024.

Kitts, James A., Grogan, Helene, and Kevin Lewis. "Social Networks and Computational
      Social Science
.  In McLevey, John, Carrington, Peter J., and John Scott (Eds.) Sage Handbook of 
      Social Networks (Second Edition), 2023.

Kitts, James A. and Diego F. Leal. "What Is(n't) a Friend? Dimensions of the Friendship Concept
     
Among Adolescents."
Social Networks. 66: 161-170, 2021.

Kitts, James A. and Eric Quintane. "Rethinking Social Networks in the Era of Computational Social               Science.  In Light, Ryan and James Moody (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Social Network Analysis.
     
pp 71-97. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Kitts, James A. and Yongren Shi. "Toward an Analytical Framework of Social Influence: Behavioral
      Diffusion
"
National Academy of Sciences Report: Exploring the Development of Analytic Frameworks.
      2018.

Kitts, James A. Lomi, Alessandro, Mascia, Daniele, Pallotti, Francesca, and Eric Quintane. 
      
Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of  Interorganizational Exchange: Patient Transfers
       Among Italian Hospitals.”
American Journal of Sociology. 123(3): 850-910, 2017.

Kitts, James A., Leal, Diego F., Jones, Thomas M., Felps, Will, and Shawn L. Berman. “Greed and Fear
      in Network Reciprocity: Implications for Cooperation Among Organizations
”   PLoS ONE 11(2), 2016.

Kitts, James A. 
"Beyond Networks in Structural Theories of Exchange: Promises from Computational
     Social Science
" Advances in Group Processes. Vol 31, 2014.

Carel van Schaik, Pieter Francois, Herbert Gintis, Daniel Haun, Daniel J. Hruschka, Marco A. Janssen,       James A. Kitts, Laurent Lehmann, Sarah Mathew, Peter J. Richerson, Peter Turchin, Polly Wiessner.       Cultural Evolution of the Structure of Human GroupsCultural Evolution. Cambridge, MIT Press,                 2014.

Mäs, Michael, Flache, Andreas, and James A. Kitts. “Cultural Integration and Differentiation in Groups
and Organizations.” Perspectives on Culture and Agent-Based Simulations: Integrating Cultures, Springer, 2014.

Wyatt, Danny, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Bilmes, Jeff, and James A. Kitts. "Inferring Colocation and Conversational Networks Using Privacy-Sensitive Audio"
       ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(1), 2011.

Anthony, Denise, Kitts, James, Masone, Christopher and Sean W. Smith. “Internet Exchange and

      Forms of Trust.” In Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment. Edited by Dominika
      Latusek and Andrea Gerbasi. IGI Global, 2010.

Goodreau, Steven, Kitts, James A. and Martina Morris. "Birds of a Feather or Friend of a Friend?
      Using Exponential Random Graph Models to Investigate Adolescent Friendship Networks."

 
      Demography, 46(1):103-126, March 2009.

Kitts, James A. "Paradise Lost? Age Dependence in the Mortality of American Communes"
     
Social Forces. 87(3): 1193-1222, March 2009.

Anthony, Denise, Kitts, James, Masone, Christopher and Sean W. Smith. “Trust and Privacy in
      Distributed Work Groups.” In Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling.
      Edited by Dominika Latusek and Andrea Gerbasi. IGI Global, 2009.

Kitts, James A.  "Dynamics and Stability of Collective Action Norms."  
     
Journal of Mathematical Sociology 32(2): 142-63, April 2008.

Wyatt, Danny, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Bilmes, Jeff, and James A. Kitts. "Towards the Automated Social Analysis of Situated Speech Data"
       Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, September 2008.

Lin, Zhiang, Kitts, James A. , Yang, Haibin, and J. Richard Harrison. "Elucidating Strategic Networks through Computational Modeling"
       Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory,
September 2008.

Kitts, James A. and Paul T. Trowbridge.
"
Shape Up Or Ship Out: Social Networks, Turnover, and   Organizational Culture." 
       Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 13(4): 333-353, December 2007.

Kitts, James A. "Collective Action, Rival Incentives, and the Emergence of Antisocial Norms."
       American Sociological Review, 71(2): 235-259, April 2006.

Kitts, James A. "Social Influence and the Emergence of Norms Amid Ties of Amity and Enmity."
      Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 14(3): 407-422, March 2006.

Macy, Michael W., Kitts, James A., Flache, Andreas, and Steve Benard. "Polarization in Dynamic
       Networks: A Hopfield Model of Emergent Structure."
 
      
Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis, National Academies Press, 162-173, 2003.

Kitts, James A. "Egocentric Bias or Information Management? Selective Disclosure and the Social Roots of Norm Misperception." 
      Social Psychology Quarterly, 66(3): 222-237, September 2003.

Kitts, James A. "Mobilizing in Black Boxes: Social Networks and Social Movement Organizations" 
Mobilization: An International Journal, 5(2): 241-257, October 2000.

Kitts, James A. "Analyzing Communal Life Spans: A Dynamic Structural Approach"
       Communal Societies, 20:13-25, Fall 2000

Kitts, James A. "Not in Our Backyard: Solidarity, Social Networks,and the Ecology of Environmental Mobilization."
     
Sociological Inquiry, 69(4): 551-574, Fall 1999.

Kitts, James A., Macy, Michael W., and Andreas Flache. "Structural Learning: Attraction and Conformity inTask-Oriented Groups."
     
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5:129-145, 1999.

Minor Publications

Mäs, Michael and James A. Kitts. “Social Influence and the Emergence of Cultural Norms.”   
      Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer Publications, 2012.

Corcoran, Katie E. and James A. Kitts.   "Communitarianism: Industrial Experimentation."  
     
Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, Facts on File, 2012.

Kitts, James A. and Jun Huang.   "Triads."  
     
Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Sage Publications, 2011.

Torfason, Magnus Thor and James A. Kitts.   "Prominence."  
     
Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Sage Publications, 2011.

Kitts, James A. and Yen-Sheng Chiang.   "Norms."  
     
Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Sage Publications, May 2008.

Kitts, James A. and Blaine G. Robins.   "Prestige."  
     
Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Sage Publications, May 2008.

Kitts, James A.  "Review: Schelling, Thomas C. Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays."  
     
Contemporary Sociology September 2008.

Wallner, Courtney M. and James A. Kitts.   "Hutterites."  
     
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska Press, September 2004.

Kitts, James A.  "Review: Hicks, George L. Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century."  
     
Contemporary Sociology July 2002.


Sponsored Research

My work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. I have grant proposals pending and in preparation for the NSF and NIH.


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