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The Cost of Friendship

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Freakonomics » The Cost of Friendship.

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sonicnu SONIC Research Group @sonicnu ·
22 Nov

Join SONIC Lab! Winter 2025
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Explore exciting opportunities with SONIC Lab, including:
- Data Science Internship
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19 Nov

Don’t miss this week’s Wednesdays@NICO, including our very own SONIC Lab member, Neelam Modi!

November 20, 2024 | 12:00 PM US
Central Chambers Hall, Lower Level, 600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL
Remote Option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/91878654083| Passcode: NICO24

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4 Nov

This Thursday, November 7th, SONIC Director @noshir Contractor will join MIT's Work and Organization Studies group for their OS Seminar series. Professor Contractor's talk is titled "Leveraging Computation Social Sciences to Address Grand Societal Challenges" and will ...

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28 Oct

SONIC Director @noshir Contractor recently worked with fellow researchers on a new paper published in Sports Economic Review. The paper, titled "Competing against former teammates predicts team victory", investigated the effect of playing against former teammates in ...

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18 Oct

Earlier this week, SONIC Director @noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch both presented papers at the 75th International Astronautical Congress in Milan. The papers were titled "Teams that SIRIUSly Go the Distance: Effect of Isolation and Confinement on Team Performance" and ...

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