Sequential Power-Dependence Theory |
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Authors: | VINCENT BUSKENS ARNOUT VAN DE RIJT |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands v.buskens@uu.nl;3. Department of Sociology , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | Existing methods for predicting resource divisions in laboratory exchange networks do not take into account the sequential nature of the experimental setting. We extend network exchange theory by considering sequential exchange. We prove that Sequential Power-Dependence Theory—unlike Power-Dependence Theory and most other exchange theories—has a unique point prediction for resource divisions in every network, and we show that these point predictions fare well in comparison to those from established theories. |
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Keywords: | exchange power sequentiality social networks |
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