Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Abdullah Almaatouq; Laura Radaelli; Alex Pentland; Erez Shmueli

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0151588

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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Abdullah Almaatouq ,

* E-mail: amaatouq@mit.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Laura Radaelli,

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Alex Pentland,

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Erez Shmueli

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Abdullah Almaatouq,
Laura Radaelli,
Alex Pentland,
Erez Shmueli

Published: March 22, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151588

About the Authors

Abdullah Almaatouq

* E-mail: amaatouq@mit.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura Radaelli

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Alex Pentland

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erez Shmueli

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA LR ES ASP. Performed the experiments: LR ES ASP. Analyzed the data: AA LR ES. Wrote the paper: AA LR ES ASP.

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