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标题：Estimating and Examining the Replicability of Belief System Networks
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作者：Mark J. Brandt
期刊名称：Collabra: Psychology
电子版ISSN：2474-7394
出版年度：2020
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：24-38
DOI：10.1525/collabra.312
出版社：University of California Press
摘要：Belief system structure can be investigated by estimating belief systems as networks of interacting political attitudes, but we do not know if these estimates are replicable. In a sample of 31 countries from the World Values Survey (N = 52,826), I find that countries’ belief system networks are relatively replicable in terms of connectivity, proportion of positive edges, some centrality measures (e.g., expected influence), and the estimates of individual edges. Betweenness, closeness, and strength centrality estimates are more unstable. Belief system networks estimated with smaller samples or in countries with more unstable political systems tend to be less replicable than networks estimated with larger samples in stable political systems. Although these analyses are restricted to the items available in the World Values Survey, they show that belief system networks can be replicable, but that this replicability is related to features of the study design and the political system.
关键词：Belief systems; networks; replication; political stability