Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler (2009), pioneers in research on real-life (non-electronic) social networks, report that attitudes, behaviors, and habits move through social networks via the ________.

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Christakis and Fowler's research found that attitudes, behaviors, and habits can spread through social networks up to three degrees of separation, meaning that our actions can influence not just our friends, but our friends' friends, and our friends' friends' friends. This is known as the "three degrees rule."

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler (2009), Pioneers in Research on Real-Life