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James A. Kitts    
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Massachusetts
240 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9278
jkitts [.at.] soc [.dot.] umass [.dot.] edu

This web page gives links to obtain reprints and supplementary materials from my recent publications, links to my pending grants and working papers, syllabi from my courses, and software that I have developed.  For details and further information, see the following pdf files:

Papers Available Here (for full list, see CV above):

Social Norms and Group Dynamics

Kitts, James A., Jones, Thomas M., Felps, Will, and Shawn L. Berman. “Two Approaches to Regulating
      Inter-Organizational Cooperation:  A Computational Experiment” In Review.

Carel van Schaik, Pieter Francois, Herbert Gintis, Daniel Haun, Daniel J. Hruschka, Marco A. Janssen,       James A. Kitts, Laurent Lehmann, Sarah Mathew, Peter J. Richerson, Peter Turchin, Polly Wiessner.       “Cultural Evolution of the Structure of Human Groups” Cultural Evolution. Cambridge, MIT Press.

Kitts, James A.  "Dynamics and Stability of Collective Action Norms."  
      Journal of Mathematical Sociology,  32(2): 142-63, April 2008.

Kitts, James A. "Collective Action, Rival Incentives, and the Emergence of Antisocial Norms."
       American Sociological Review, 71(2): 235-259, April 2006.

Kitts, James A. "Egocentric Bias or Information Management? Selective Disclosure and the Social Roots of Norm Misperception." 
      Social Psychology Quarterly, 66(3): 222-237, September 2003.

Organizational Demography, Ecology, and Social Networks

Kitts, James A. Lomi, Alessandro, Mascia, Daniele, Pallotti, Francesca, and Eric Quintane. “Beyond
      Inter-Organizational Ties: Dynamics of Exchange among Italian Hospitals.”

Kitts, James A.  "Diversity, Turnover, and the Dynamics of Organizational Demography."  In Revision.

Kitts, James A. "Paradise Lost? Age Dependence in the Mortality of American Communes"
      Social Forces, Forthcoming, March 2009.

Goodreau, Steven, Kitts, James A. and Martina Morris. "Birds of a Feather or Friend of a Friend? Using Exponential Random Graph Models to Investigate Adolescent Friendship Networks."
       Demography, 46(1):103-126, March 2009.

Organizational Mobilization, Influence, and Social Networks

Mäs, Michael, Flache, Andreas, and James A. Kitts. “Cultural Integration and Differentiation in Groups
and Organizations.” [Accepted for peer-reviewed volume: Perspectives on Culture and Agent-Based
      Simulations: Integrating Cultures, Springer.]

Lin, Zhiang, Kitts, James A. , Yang, Haibin, and J. Richard Harrison. "Elucidating Strategic Networks through Computational Modeling"
       Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, September 2008.

Kitts, James A. and Paul T. Trowbridge. "Shape Up Or Ship Out: Social Networks, Turnover, and   Organizational Culture." 
       Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 13(4): 333-353, December 2007.

Kitts, James A. "Social Influence and the Emergence of Norms Amid Ties of Amity and Enmity."
      Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 14(3): 407-422, March 2006.

Macy, Michael W., Kitts, James A., Flache, Andreas, and Steve Benard. "Polarization in Dynamic Networks: A Hopfield Model of Emergent Structure."  
      Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis, National Academies Press, 162-173, 2003.

Kitts, James A. "Mobilizing in Black Boxes: Social Networks and Social Movement Organizations" 
Mobilization: An International Journal, 5(2): 241-257, October 2000.

Kitts, James A. "Analyzing Communal Life Spans: A Dynamic Structural Approach"
       Communal Societies, 20:13-25, Fall 2000

Kitts, James A. "Not in Our Backyard: Solidarity, Social Networks,and the Ecology of Environmental Mobilization."
      Sociological Inquiry, 69(4): 551-574, Fall 1999.

Kitts, James A., Macy, Michael W., and Andreas Flache. "Structural Learning: Attraction and Conformity inTask-Oriented Groups."
      Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 5:129-145, 199

Computer-Mediated and Human-Computer Interaction

Wyatt, Danny, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Bilmes, Jeff, and James A. Kitts. "Inferring Colocation and Conversational Networks Using Privacy-Sensitive Audio"
       ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2(1), 2011.

Anthony, Denise, Kitts, James, Masone, Christopher and Sean W. Smith. “Internet Exchange and
      Forms of Trust.” In Trust and Technology in a Ubiquitous Modern Environment. Edited by Dominika
      Latusek and Andrea Gerbasi. IGI Global, 2010.

Anthony, Denise, Kitts, James, Masone, Christopher and Sean W. Smith. “Trust and Privacy in
      Distributed Work Groups.” In Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling.
      Edited by Dominika Latusek and Andrea Gerbasi. IGI Global, 2009.

Wyatt, Danny, Choudhury, Tanzeem, Bilmes, Jeff, and James A. Kitts. "Towards the Automated Social Analysis of Situated Speech Data"
       Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, September 2008.

Minor Publications

Mäs, Michael and James A. Kitts. “Social Influence and the Emergence of Cultural Norms.”   
      Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer Publications, 2012.

Kitts, James A. and Jun Huang.   "Triads."  
      Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Sage Publications, forthcoming.

Torfason, Magnus Thor and James A. Kitts.   "Prominence."  
      Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Sage Publications, forthcoming.

Mas, Michael and James A. Kitts.   "Social Influence and the Emergence of Cultural Norms."  
      Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer Publications, forthcoming.

Corcoran, Katie E. and James A. Kitts.   "Communitarianism: Industrial Experimentation."  
      Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, Facts on File, forthcoming.

Kitts, James A.  "Review: Schelling, Thomas C. Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays."  
      Contemporary Sociology,  September 2008.

Kitts, James A. and Yen-Sheng Chiang.   "Norms."  
      Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Sage Publications, May 2008.

Kitts, James A. and Blaine G. Robins.   "Prestige."  
      Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Sage Publications, May 2008.

Wallner, Courtney M. and James A. Kitts.   "Hutterites."  
      Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska Press, September 2004.

Kitts, James A.  "Review: Hicks, George L. Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century."  
      Contemporary Sociology,  July 2002.


Pending Sponsored Research

I am working on three projects with National Science Foundation support in the Human and Social Dynamics priority area:

Software: (for MS Windows)

"NET-WORKS"    
Software suite for analyzing and visualizing social networks.   See Description

"SpellMaker"    
This application processes natality/mortality data for discrete or continuous time event-history analysis.
     See Description
 
"Structural Learning"    
This is the Attractor Neural Network model used in Kitts, Macy, and Flache (1999) above.
     Download Copy Here

"Iterated Game Arena"     
This program arranges tournaments between IPD strategies, under conditions of discounting and error.
     See Description and Download Copy Here
 
Courses: