Globally coupled bistable elements as a model of group decision making
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2007-05-23 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
A simple mathematical model is proposed to study the effect of the average trend of a population on the opinion of each individual, when a group decision has to be made by voting. It is shown that if such effect is strong enough a transition to coherent behavior occurs, in which the whole population converges to a single opinion. This transition has the character of a first-order critical phenomenon.
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@article{arxiv.adap-org/9905006,
title = {Globally coupled bistable elements as a model of group decision making},
author = {Damian H. Zanette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:adap-org/9905006},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures; presented to the First Workshop on the Dynamics of Socio-Economical Systems, La Plata, Argentina, Nov. 1998