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newcomb_fraternity — Newcomb fraternity preference rankings (1956)

Description

Weekly sociometric preference rankings among 17 men attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 1956, as part of the Michigan Group Study Project supervised by T. Newcomb (1953-1956). The men were incoming transfer students without prior acquaintance, recruited to live together in an off-campus (fraternity) house rented for them. Each week, each man ranked all the others by preference, without ties. The data from week 9 are missing. These data were analyzed among others by White, Boorman and Breiger (1976). The data were distributed by L. C. Freeman on his network data page at the University of California, Irvine (no longer online), from which this version was obtained via the Internet Archive.

The networks week0 to week15 (except week9) contain one directed edge (i, j) for each pair of men, indicating the rank given by man i to man j.

The network signed_week15 is the undirected signed network that S. Aref and M. C. Wilson derived from the rankings of the last week (week 15) to study structural balance (Aref and Wilson, 2018 and 2019): ranks 1 to 5 are taken as positive choices and ranks 12 to 16 as negative choices, and two men are connected only if their choices of each other are reciprocated with the same sign (17 men, 40 edges, 17 of them negative). It is computed here from the week 15 rankings.

The networks have the following properties:

  • Edges (week0 to week15): rank, the preference rank (1: first preference, ..., 16: last).
  • Edges (signed_week15): sign, $+1$ for a reciprocated positive choice and $-1$ for a reciprocated negative choice.
Tags
Social Offline Weighted Signed Temporal
Citation
  • T. M. Newcomb, "The Acquaintance Process." Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1961) 10.1037/13156-000 Sci-Hub
  • P. G. Nordlie, "A longitudinal study of interpersonal attraction in a natural group setting." Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan (1958) scholar.google.com
  • H. C. White, S. A. Boorman, R. L. Breiger, "Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions." American Journal of Sociology 81(4), 730-780 (1976) 10.1086/226141 Sci-Hub
  • S. Aref and M. C. Wilson, "Measuring partial balance in signed networks." J. Complex Networks 6(4), 566–595 (2018) 10.1093/comnet/cnx044 Sci-Hub
  • S. Aref and M. C. Wilson, "Balance and frustration in signed networks." J. Complex Networks 7(2), 163–189 (2019) 10.1093/comnet/cny015 Sci-Hub
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210115130726/http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#newfrat
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
week0 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week1 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week2 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week3 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week4 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week5 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week6 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week7 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week8 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week10 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week11 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week12 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week13 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week14 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 inf nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
week15 17 272 16.00 0.00 15.00 0.03 nan 0.97 1 1.00 Directed Unipartite rank 1 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
signed_week15 17 40 4.71 1.07 4.03 3.30 0.28 0.34 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite sign 1 KiB 1 KiB 1 KiB 1 KiB