Heider Balance in Human Networks
Abstract
Recently, a continuous dynamics was proposed to simulate dynamics of interpersonal relations in a society represented by a fully connected graph. Final state of such a society was found to be identical with the so-called Heider balance (HB), where the society is divided into two mutually hostile groups. In the continuous model, a polarization of opinions was found in HB. Here we demonstrate that the polarization occurs also in Barabasi-Albert networks, where the Heider balance is not necessarily present. In the second part of this work we demonstrate the results of our formalism, when applied to reference examples: the Southern women and the Zachary club.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0503085,
title = {Heider Balance in Human Networks},
author = {P. Gawronski and K. Kulakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0503085},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures. Presented on 8th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics, Modeling Cooperative Behavior in the Social Sciences, Granada, Spain, 7-11 February 2005