Understanding the effect of social influence in decision making

Brief Description of reference to the topic – Understanding the effects of social influence in decision making.

This project aims to investigate, simulate and quantify how individuals respond to social influence when making decisions [1]. The social impact theory will be discussed in the context of multiple criteria decision analysis.?There will be flexibility in choosing real-world decision making problems under collective or social influence, such as online purchases, investment [2], vaccination decision making [3], etc.

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Please read carefully requirements and instructions below before beginning of work.

1. This research should be done with NodeXL, an software for SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS. I have pro license and can provide license with you by uploading.

2. This research should be done with QUANTITATIVE method by using real data, extracting real-time data from twitter via NodeXL. Questionnaire, survey or interview does NOT REQUIRED. Social network analysis should be done via NodeXL. Other software also can be used if it’s required. But NodeXL should be used.

3. Please follow the structure I uploaded. Also, it would be really happy that contents also follows the structure. e.g. If user satisfaction is stated in literature review, then it should also be stated in methodology.

4. I have done some literature review with supervisor few times and he said ‘Literature review should include 2.1. decision making with multiple criteria decision making (or analysis), 2.2. social impact theory and social influence, 2.3. social media and social network analysis’. You can revise everything in my work but please leave those works mentioned above if it’s required while you’re doing this work. It is because like I told you above I had few meeting with my supervisor before so I need to leave some contents as they will help this works looks like mine… Furthermore, it would be really great if you can do this research dealing with online purchase as I was focusing on online purchase. However if you want, you can change to some topics like stock market or investment, etc. as wrote above brief description.