James A. Kitts    
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
Graduate School of Business
704 Uris Hall, 3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
jak2190 [.at.] columbia [.dot.] edu

This web page gives links to download abstracts and supplementary materials from my recent publications, links to my pending grants and working papers, syllabi from my courses, and software that I have developed.  For details and further information, see my curriculum vitae and my research statement.

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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, In Second Review.

Jones, Thomas M., Felps, Will, Kitts, James A. 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 Modeling to Investigate Adolescent Friendship Networks."
       Demography, In Press, November 2008.

Lin, Zhiang, Kitts, James A. , Yang, Haibin, and J. Richard Harrison. "Elucidating Strategic Networks through Computational Modeling"
       Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, In Press, September 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, Social Influence, and   Organizational Turnover." 
       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.)

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. "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.


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.


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