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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 Groups”
Cultural 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.
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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