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Pending Sponsored Research
I am working on three projects with National Science Foundation support
in
the Human
and Social Dynamics priority area:
Papers Available on Request (for
others, see CV):
Kitts,
James A. "Paradise
Lost? Age
Dependence in the Mortality of American Communes"
Social
Forces, Forthcoming, March 2009.
Kitts,
James A., Jones,
Thomas M., Felps, Will,
and Shawn Berman. "Governmental
Contract Enforcement Mechanisms, Cooperation, and Economic Prosperity:
A Simulation Model."
Strategic Management Journal,
Requested revision pending.
Kitts,
James A.
"Diversity, Turnover, and the Dynamics of Organizational Demography."
In Revision.
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,
45(4), November 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.
"Review: Schelling, Thomas C. Strategies
of Commitment and Other Essays."
Contemporary Sociology,
September 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.
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.
"Dynamics
and Stability of Collective Action Norms."
Journal of Mathematical Sociology,
32(2): 142-63, April 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.
(To be reprinted in Simulating Organizational Processes, Edited
by Richard Harrison, Elsevier Press.)
Wallner, Courtney M. and James A.
Kitts.
"Hutterites."
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains,
University of Nebraska Press, September 2004.
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.
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.
"Review: Hicks, George L. Experimental
Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century."
Contemporary Sociology,
July 2002.
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.
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Software:
(for MS Windows)
"NET-WORKS"
Software suite for analyzing and visualizing social
networks.
See Description
Last updated July 10, 2000.
"SpellMaker"
This application processes natality/mortality data for discrete or
continuous time event-history analysis.
See
Description and Download Copy Here
Last updated December 23, 2000.
"Structural
Learning"
This is the Attractor Neural Network model used in Kitts,Macy, and
Flache (1999) above.
Download
Copy Here
"Iterated Game
Arena"
This program arranges
tournaments between IPD strategies, under conditions of discounting and
error.
See
Description and Download Copy Here
Last updated May 7, 2001.
Past Courses:
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