11-year-old AI paper withdrawn after dormant decade
A 2015 psychology-AI paper was quietly withdrawn in 2026 after lying dormant for a decade.
Researchers Jamil Civitarese, Fernanda Concatto, and Cláudio Abreu published a paper in 2015 exploring how psychological traits shape—and are shaped by—social network structures. The study introduced two models: one using an agent-based approach on Bianconi-Barabasi networks to correlate network size, extroversion, and age, and another examining how reduced communication between differing traits fosters urban tribes.
The paper languished in obscurity for over a decade before being withdrawn in August 2026, with the authors noting it was “trivial” and never revisited. Despite its dormancy, the work remains a curiosity in how niche academic ideas can resurface years later, often without fanfare.
- 2015 paper by Jamil Civitarese et al. studied psychological factors in social network dynamics using agent-based models.
- Withdrawn in August 2026 as “trivial” and never revised since its 2015 submission.
- Highlighted endogeneity in network formation, where personality traits influence and are influenced by social structures.
Why It Matters
Shows how even niche academic work can persist silently and resurface unexpectedly years later.