Fractal multi-level organisation of human groups in a virtual world

10792 8 35445 2 78794 document 35445 srep06526.pdf application/pdf 04a1d3e312d8f610656d3911ae056632 MD5 416895 2016-02-29 11:31:20 https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10792/1/srep06526.pdf 10792 1 1 application/pdf text en public cc_by

srep06526.pdf

published 35446 2 78797 document 35446 lightbox.jpg image/png 845c19647b79d10d13ec3ddbb72896e4 MD5 62164 2016-02-29 11:31:36 https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10792/2/lightbox.jpg 10792 2 2 image/png other Thumbnails conversion from text to thumbnail_lightbox en public

lightbox.jpg

preview.jpg

medium.jpg

small.jpg

indexcodes.txt

http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35445 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35445 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/35445 archive 351 disk0/00/01/07/92 2016-01-15 08:50:13 2021-08-27 17:39:37 2016-01-15 08:50:13 article show Fuchs B. Sornette D. Thurner S. 1918 Fractal multi-level organisation of human groups in a virtual world pub iis_sys prog_asa Applied physics; Complex networks Humans are fundamentally social. They form societies which consist of hierarchically layered nested groups of various quality, size, and structure. The anthropologic literature has classified these groups as support cliques, sympathy groups, bands, cognitive groups, tribes, linguistic groups, and so on. Anthropologic data show that, on average, each group consists of approximately three subgroups. However, a general understanding of the structural dependence of groups at different layer is largely missing. We extend these early findings to a very large high-precision large-scale internet-based social network data. We analyze the organizational structure of a complete, multi-relational, large social multiplex network of a human society consisting of about 400,000 odd players of an open-ended massive multiplayer online game for which we know all about their various group memberships at different layers. Remarkably, the online players' society exhibits the same type of structured hierarchical layers as found in hunter-gatherer societies. Our findings suggest that the hierarchical organization of human society is deeply nested in human psychology. 2014-10 published NPG 10.1038/srep06526 XJ-14-259 Scientific Reports; 4:6526 (October 2014) [doi:10.1038/srep06526] 307 public Scientific Reports 4 no.6526 6526 TRUE 2045-2322 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/article