Why You May Have More Friends Than Your Friends Do

here’s a rude charm to the title, “Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You.” It’s catchy, like the title of an antagonistic explainer: Here are the causes of your lackluster social life. It sounds more like a op-ed than an academic paper. But in fact, “Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You” is a 1991 from Scott Feld published in the . It now has some claim to fame for introducing into popular culture the so-called the early onset of contagious outbreaks and effective vaccination strategies. New research, published in the , suggests the paradox is more nuanced than Feld figured it to be.