Balancer effects in opinion dynamics
Physics and Society
2015-12-01 v2 Dynamical Systems
Abstract
We introduce a novel type of contrarian agent, the balancer, to Galam model of opinion dynamics, in order to account for the existence of social skepticism over one-sidedness. We find that the inclusion of balancers, along with majoritarian floaters and single-sided inflexibles, brings about the emergence of a critical point on parametric plane of the dynamical system. Around the critical point, three distinct phases of opinion dynamics separated by discontinuous changes are found.
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@article{arxiv.1507.07339,
title = {Balancer effects in opinion dynamics},
author = {Taksu Cheon and Jun Morimoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07339},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages LaTeX, 7 Figures