Known by the company we keep: `Triadic influence' as a proxy for compatibility in social relationships. (arXiv:2209.03683v2 [cs.SI] UPDATED)

Networks of social interactions are the substrate upon which civilizations
are built. Often, we create new bonds with people that we like or feel that our
relationships are damaged through the intervention of third parties. Despite
their importance and the huge impact that these processes have in our lives,
quantitative scientific understanding of them is still in its infancy, mainly
due to the difficulty of collecting large datasets of social networks including
individual attributes. In this work, we present a …

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