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Structural Balance Theory

Structural balance theory analyzes networks whose ties carry a sign — positive for liking, alliance, or trust, negative for hostility or distrust — and asks which configurations are psychologically and socially stable. Originating in Fritz Heider's cognitive balance principle and given a graph-theoretic form by Dorwin Cartwright and Frank Harary in 1956, it predicts that signed networks evolve toward states free of the tension produced by inconsistent triads such as 'the friend of my enemy'.

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Structural Balance Theory for Signed Networks
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sociology
  • Cartwright, D., & Harary, F. (1956). Structural balance: a generalization of Heider's theory. Psychological Review, 63(5), 277–293. · DOI 10.1037/h0046049
  • Davis, J. A. (1967). Clustering and structural balance in graphs. Human Relations, 20(2), 181–187. · DOI 10.1177/001872676702000206
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