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Testing for behavioral contagion in a case-control design

M B Jones1, D R Jones

  • 1Department of Behavioral Science, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033.

Journal of Psychiatric Research
|January 1, 1994
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Behavioral contagion, the spread of behaviors through social ties, can be detected in case-control studies. This research provides new methods to identify contagion, even in conditions like conduct disorder.

Area of Science:

  • Social psychology
  • Behavioral science
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Behavioral contagion describes the tendency for individuals to adopt behaviors observed in their social network.
  • This phenomenon is implicated in various social issues, including conduct disorder, substance abuse, and teenage pregnancy.
  • Previous work established methods to detect contagion in survey data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend the detection of behavioral contagion to case-control study designs.
  • To demonstrate that contagion has distinct patterns in case-control data.
  • To provide further evidence for the contagious nature of conduct disorder.

Main Methods:

  • Development of analytical techniques to identify contagion patterns in case-control data.

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  • Application of these methods to a Canadian case-control study of conduct disorder.
  • Statistical analysis to infer the presence of contagion from observed data.

    • Main Results:

    • Behavioral contagion produces distinctive, identifiable patterns in case-control study results.
    • The analysis provided further evidence supporting the contagious nature of conduct disorder.
    • The study demonstrated the applicability of the contagion detection method to case-control designs.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed methods allow for the inference of behavioral contagion in case-control studies.
    • Conduct disorder exhibits characteristics consistent with behavioral contagion.
    • The approach offers a novel way to study the social transmission of behaviors.