Arbesman, Samuel; Christakis, Nicholas A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 11, pp. 2155-2159
prosocial behaviors (e.g., voting and organ donation), which also would be presumed to be categorized into a single class of … scaling with population. We find that, unlike productivity and innovation, prosocial behaviors do not scale in a unified … manner. We argue how this might be due to the nature of interactions that are distinct for different prosocial behaviors. …