@article{ref1,
title="Structural balance emerges and explains performance in risky decision-making",
journal="Nature communications",
year="2019",
author="Askarisichani, Omid and Lane, Jacqueline Ng and Bullo, Francesco and Friedkin, Noah E. and Singh, Ambuj K. and Uzzi, Brian",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="e2648-e2648",
abstract="Polarization affects many forms of social organization. A key issue focuses on which affective relationships are prone to change and how their change relates to performance. In this study, we analyze a financial institutional over a two-year period that employed 66 day traders, focusing on links between changes in affective relations and trading performance. Traders' affective relations were inferred from their IMs (>2 million messages) and trading performance was measured from profit and loss statements (>1 million trades). Here, we find that triads of relationships, the building blocks of larger social structures, have a propensity towards affective balance, but one unbalanced configuration resists change. Further, balance is positively related to performance. Traders with balanced networks have the &quot;hot hand&quot;, showing streaks of high performance. Research implications focus on how changes in polarization relate to performance and polarized states can depolarize.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2041-1723",
doi="10.1038/s41467-019-10548-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10548-8"
}