Daniel Cowen

Dynamics of outgroup attitudes in peer networks: Testing the effects of socialization, contact, and selection - Alla Loseva, Andreas Flache, Christian Steglich, Sabine Otten, Michael Mäs, 2026 Intergroup attitudes can be positively influenced by peers, but it remains unclear whether this occurs primarily through ingroup socialization or outgroup conta...

Do teens become more tolerant because they make friends across #ethnic lines — or because of #socialinfluence from coethnic friends?
📝 Both matter, and neither personal dislike nor strong #ethnicidentity block these effects.

New #SAOM study of #networks and attitudes of 380 German #adolescents:

Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…

New Paper!

A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!

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Debuting my BlueSky account to share my poster presentation at #IC2S2

A nice break from a regular conference presentation, I’ll be showing you about what turns a debate into an insult contest in online political discussions communities! Come past poster #16 on Wednesday (12:30-14:30) to have a chat