SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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    • Loseva, A., Flache, A., Steglich, C., Otten, S., & Mäs, M. (2026). Dynamics of outgroup attitudes in peer networks: Testing the effects of socialization, contact, and selection. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251406209
    • Cowen, D., Stark, T.H., Frey, V., Flache, A. 2026. Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance. Social Networks 84: 180-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2025.10.001
    • Zingora, T., & Flache, A. 2025. Effects of Friendship Influence and Normative Pressure on Adolescent Attitudes and Behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251366388
    • Tang, Tanzhe, Snijders, Tom & Flache, A.. 2025. An Empirical and Simulation Investigation of Bounded Confidence and Negative Influence in Opinion Dynamics Using Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 28 (1) 2. http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/28/1/2.html
    • Frey, V, Flache, A., Mäs, M., Bakker, D. 2024. “Who influences lower-status individuals more, people of higher-status outgroups or people of their lower-status ingroup? Examining the difference between matters of opinion and matters of fact”. Social Science Research 123, 103060, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103060.

    • Nientimp, D. ; Goedkoop, F. ; Flache, A.; Jacob Dijkstra, J. 2024. A social network approach to community energy initiative participation. Energy Efficiency. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-024-10247-4 (online first)

    • Dignum, E., Boterman, W., Flache, A., & Lees, M. 2024. A data-driven agent-based model of primary school segregation in Amsterdam. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 48(3), 362–392. https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.2024.2340136

    • Keijzer, M., Mäs, M. & Flache, A. 2024. Polarization on social media: Micro-level evidence and macro-level implications. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 27 (1) 7 https://www.jasss.org/27/1/7/7.pdf

    • Stein, Jonas, Frey, Vincenz and Flache, A. 2024. ‘Talk Less to Strangers: How Homophily Can Improve Collective Decision-Making in Diverse Teams’ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 27 (1) 14. doi: 10.18564/jasss.5224 

    • Feliciani, T., Tolsma, J., Flache, A. 2023.  Ethnic segregation and spatial patterns of attitudes: studying the link using register data and social simulation. Journal of Computational Social Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-023-00216-9.

    • Liu, S., Mäs, M., Xia, H. & Flache, A. 2023. Job done? Future modeling challenges after 20 years of work on Bounded-Confidence models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 26 (4) 8. DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5137

    • Liu, S., Mäs, M., Xia, H. & Flache, A. 2023. When intuition fails: the complex effects of assimilative and repulsive influence on opinion polarization. Advances in Complex Systems (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525922500114

    • Goedkoop, F., Dijkstra, J., & Flache, A 2022. A social network perspective on involvement in community energy initiatives: The role of direct and extended social ties to initiators. Energy Policy 171, 113260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.113260

    • Chan, Kit Ming Danny, Duivenvoorden, Robert, Flache, Andreas & Mandjes, Michel (2022) A relative approach to opinion formation, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 48:1, 1-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250X.2022.2036142

    • Goedkoop, F., Sloot, D., Jans, L., Dijkstra, J., Steg, L., Flache, A. 2022. The role of community in understanding involvement in community energy initiatives. Frontiers in Psychology 12:775752. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.775752.

    • Brouwer, J., de Matos Fernandes, C., Steglich, C., Jansen, E., Hofman, A. & Flache, A. 2022. The development of peer networks and academic performance in learning communities in higher education. Learning & Instruction 80: 101603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101603.

    • Dignum, E., Athieniti, E., Boterman, W., Flache, A., & Lees, M. 2022. Mechanisms for increased school segregation relative to residential segregation: a model-based analysis Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 93, 101772, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101772.

    • de Matos Fernandes, C., Flache, A., D. Bakker, Dijkstra, J. 2022. A bad barrel spoils a good apple: How uncertainty and networks affect whether meritocratic matching can foster cooperation. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 25 (1) 6 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/25/1/6.html>. doi: 10.18564/jasss.4754

    • Hooijsma, Marianne, Kisfalusi, Dorottya, Huitsing, Gijs, Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis, Flache, A. & Veenstra, R. 2021. Crossing Ethnic Boundaries? A Social Network Investigation of Defending Relationships in Schools. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI:10.1177/13684302211009318

    • Flache, A. 2018. About Renegades and Outgroup Haters: Modeling the Link between Social Influence and Intergroup Attitudes. Advances in Complex Systems 21 (6&7). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525918500170

    • Flache, A., Mäs, M., Feliciani, T., Chattoe-Brown, E., Deffuant, G., Huet, S., & Lorenz, J. 2017. Models of social influence: towards the next frontiers. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20(4). http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/4/2.html

    • Mäs, M., Flache, A., Takács,  K.  & Jehn, K. 2013. In the short term we divide, in the long term we unite: Demographic crisscrossing and the effects of faultlines on subgroup polarization. Organization Science 24. 3: 716–736.

    • Stark, T.H. & A. Flache. 2012. The Double Edge of Common Interest: Ethnic Segregation as an Unintended Byproduct of Opinion Homophily. Sociology of Education2:179-199.
    • Flache, A., & Macy, M.W. 2011. Small Worlds and Cultural Polarization. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 35.1. Pp. 146-176 in Marcel A. L. M. van Assen, Vincent Buskens, and Werner Raub (eds.). Special triple issue: “Micro-Macro Links and Micro-Foundations”.
    • Macy, M.W., A. Flache. 2002. Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A[1]. May 14;99(10):7229-36