Dynamics of Human Behavior and Societies based on Social Big Data

Abstract

Social big data provide a particularly powerful tool for the quantitative study of human behavior and social phenomena, because it enables us to observe the social behaviors of humans in detail. In this paper, we introduce four topics in social science: cooperative behavior, social grooming and social structures, in-group bias, and sexual selection. We introduce previous works and recent studies on social big data analysis in each topic. Additionally, we mention new problems that are arising with the growth of the Web and studies on these problems.