On the validity of perceived social structure

DOI10.1016/J.JMP.2020.102384MaRDI QIDQ826871zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francis Lee, Carter T. Butts

Publication date 6 January 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Psychology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2020.102384

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian network accuracy modelssocial networksocial relationships

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Measurement and performance in psychology (91E45)

Review text

This paper studies network inference revolving around the validity of perceived social structure in social network research. An established method called cultural consensus theory has been briefly reviewed. This methodology provides an avenue to infer the accuracy the informants and the underlying cultural truth on which they are reporting in surveys. The authors then propose a modified model for social measurement through a multi-pronged approach in the context of organizational settings. It is shown that it is possible to reliably recover social network structure given the data generating process under the proposed model based on numerical simulations. It is revealed that inferred structures from different sets of informants are more similar to each other than a random sampling. Some validity checks are also performed against the proposed model. It is shown that patterns in individual respondent observations are structured in a way that aligns with cognitive theory.

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