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Alex Bavelas | |
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| Born | Alexander Bavelas December 26, 1913 Chicopee, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | August 16, 1993 (aged 79) Sidney, British Columbia, Canada |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Some Mathematical Properties of Psychological Space (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dorwin Cartwright |
| Influences | Kurt Lewin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Sub-discipline | Social psychology |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | Harold Leavitt |
| Notable ideas | Closeness centrality |
Alexander Bavelas (December 26, 1913[1] – August 16, 1993) was an American psychosociologist credited as the first to define closeness centrality. His work was influential in using mathematics in developing the concept of centralization and in formalizing fundamental concepts of network structure.[2]
- ^ Jacobson, Eugene Henry (1980). International Directory of Psychologists. ISBN 9780444854926.
- ^ Prell, Christina (2012). Social Network Analysis: History, Theory and Methodology. ISBN 9781412947145.