Christakis, Nicholas A.

Vulnerable robots positively shape human conversational dynamics in a human–robot team

Traeger, M. L., Strohkorb Sebo, S., Jung, M., Scassellati, B., & Christakis, N. A. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Social Robot Interaction and HRISpeech and dialogue systems

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Patient-Sharing Networks of Physicians and Health Care Utilization and Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Landon, B. E., Keating, N. L., Onnela, J.-P., Zaslavsky, A. M., Christakis, N. A., & O’Malley, A. J. (2018) · JAMA Internal Medicine

Healthcare Policy and ManagementHealthcare Systems and Technology

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How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

Schroeder, D. T., Cha, M., Baronchelli, A., Bostrom, N., Christakis, N. A., Garcia, D., Goldenberg, A., Kyrychenko, Y., Leyton-Brown, K., Lutz, N., et al. (2026) · Science

Misinformation and Its ImpactsEthics and Social Impacts of AI

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Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks

Beghini, F., Pullman, J., Alexander, M., Shridhar, S. V., Prinster, D., Singh, A., Matute Juárez, R., Airoldi, E. M., Brito, I. L., & Christakis, N. A. (2025) · Nature

Gut microbiota and healthMicrobial Community Ecology and Physiology

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Cooperation, decision time, and culture: Online experiments with American and Indian participants

Nishi, A., Christakis, N. A., & Rand, D. G. (2017) · PLOS ONE

Experimental Behavioral Economics StudiesEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

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Population Trends and Variation in Body Mass Index from 1971 to 2008 in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort

Block, J. P., Subramanian, S. V., Christakis, N. A., & O’Malley, A. J. (2013) · PLoS ONE

Obesity, Physical Activity, DietDiabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

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