Garry Robins

Low carbon readiness in social context: Introducing the social context of environmental identity model

Yoshihisa Kashima, Lean O'Brien, Ilona McNeill, Michael Ambrose, Gordana Bruce, Christine R Critchley, Paul Dudgeon, Peter Newton, Garry Robins

Journal article  |  2021  |  ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Low carbon readiness (LCR) is an aspect of environmental identity, an individual citizen’s willingness to reduce carbon emissions ..

Exponential random graph model parameter estimation for very large directed networks

Alex Stivala, Garry Robins, Alessandro Lomi

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are widely used for modeling social networks observed at one point in time. However the co..

Reconciling Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Governance: A Social Network Perspective

Orjan Bodin, Maria Mancilla Garcia, Garry Robins

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, VOL 45

Most if not all environmental problems entail conflicts of interest.Yet, different actors and opposing coalitions often but certai..

Improving network approaches to the study of complex social-ecological interdependencies

O Bodin, SM Alexander, J Baggio, ML Barnes, R Berardo, GS Cumming, LE Dee, AP Fischer, M Fischer, Maria Mancilla Garcia, AM Guerrero, J Hileman, K Ingold, P Matous, TH Morrison, D Nohrstedt, J Pittman, G Robins, JS Sayles

Journal article  |  2019  |  NATURE SUSTAINABILITY

Achieving effective, sustainable environmental governance requires a better understanding of the causes and consequences of the co..

Norm Talk and Human Cooperation: Can We Talk Ourselves Into Cooperation?

Daniel B Shank, Yoshihisa Kashima, Kim Peters, Yang Li, Garry Robins, Michael Kirley

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Norm talk is verbal communication that explicitly states or implicitly implies a social norm. To investigate its ability to shape ..

A Social Psychological Guide for Transformation into Low Carbon Living

Léan V O’Brien, Ilona M McNeill, Gordana Bruce, Christine R Critchley, Paul Dudgeon, Peter Newton, Garry Robins, Michael Ambrose, Jarrod Walshe, Yoshihisa Kashima

Book Chapter  |  2019

Bayesian analysis of erg models for multilevel, multiplex, and multilayered networks with sampled or missing data

J Koskinen, C Broccatelli, P Wang, G Robins

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics

Social network analysis has typically concerned analysis of one type of tie connecting nodes of the same type. It has however been..

Outliers and Influential Observations in Exponential Random Graph Models

Johan Koskinen, Peng Wang, Garry Robins, Philippa Pattison

Journal article  |  2018  |  PSYCHOMETRIKA

We discuss measuring and detecting influential observations and outliers in the context of exponential family random graph (ERG) m..

Fast Maximum Likelihood Estimation via Equilibrium Expectation for Large Network Data

Maksym Byshkin, Alex Stivala, Antonietta Mira, Garry Robins, Alessandro Lomi

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

A major line of contemporary research on complex networks is based on the development of statistical models that specify the local..

Embedding time in positions: Temporal measures of centrality for social network analysis

Lucia Falzon, Eric Quintane, John Dunn, Garry Robins

Journal article  |  2018  |  SOCIAL NETWORKS

Digital data enable researchers to obtain fine-grained temporal information about social interactions. However, positional measure..