Alex Bavelas

Thinkers1913 to 1993Social psychologist

Works

  • A Mathematical Model for Group Structures, Applied Anthropology (now Human Organization), 1948

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Known for

Ran the small-group communication experiments at MIT in the late 1940s. Linton Freeman credits his 1948 paper with introducing centrality to the study of human communication, the idea that a person's position in a network shapes their influence.

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