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There are numerous examples of societies with extremely stable mix of contrasting opinions. We argue that this stability is a result of an interplay between society network topology adjustment and opinion changing processes. To support this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Pawel Sobkowicz

Opinion dynamics is of paramount importance as it provides insights into the complex dynamics of opinion propagation and social relationship adjustment. It is assumed in most of the previous works that social relationships evolve much…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-05 Xunlong Wang , Bin Wu

A hybrid model for opinion dynamics in complex multi-agent networks is introduced, wherein some continuous-valued agents average neighbors' opinions to update their own, while other discrete-valued agents use stochastic copying and voting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mengran Xue , Sandip Roy

In this manuscript, we introduce and study a variant of the agent-based opinion dynamics proposed in a recent work [8], within the framework of an interacting multi-agent system, where agents are assumed to interact with each other and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Fei Cao , Roberto Cortez

Social interactions influence people's opinions. In some situations, these interactions eventually yield a consensus opinion; in others, they can lead to opinion fragmentation and the formation of different opinion groups in the form of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-01 Lasse Mohr , Poul G. Hjorth , Mason A. Porter

Usually, opinion formation models assume that individuals have an opinion about a given topic which can change due to interactions with others. However, individuals can have different opinions in different topics and therefore n-dimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-22 Lucia Pedraza , Juan Pablo Pinasco , Nicolas Saintier , Pablo Balenzuela

In this paper, we study a model of opinion dynamics in a social network in the presence increasing interpersonal influence, i.e., increasing peer pressure. Each agent in the social network has a distinct social stress function given by a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Justin Semonsen , Christopher Griffin , Anna Squicciarini , Sarah Rajtmajer

The issue of opinion sharing and formation has received considerable attention in the academic literature, and a few models have been proposed to study this problem. However, existing models are limited to the interactions among nearest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zuobai Zhang , Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang , Guanrong Chen

This paper considers the consensus problem of a novel opinion dynamics model with group pressure and self-confidence. Different with the most existing paper, the influence of friends of friends in a social network is taken into account,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wenjuan Wang , Zhongmei Wang , Xinmin Song

It is known that individual opinions on different policy issues often align to a dominant ideological dimension (e.g. "left" vs. "right") and become increasingly polarized. We provide an agent-based model that reproduces these two stylized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-28 Simon Schweighofer , David Garcia , Frank Schweitzer

We consider a system in which a group of agents represented by the vertices of a graph synchronously update their opinion based on that of their neighbours. If each agent adopts a positive opinion if and only if that opinion is sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-12 John Haslegrave , Chris Cannings

In modern interconnected societies, opinions and beliefs can quickly spread across large populations, giving rise to collective behaviors such as the adoption of social norms or polarization. These phenomena have motivated many models aimed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

Agents in social networks with threshold-based dynamics change opinions when influenced by sufficiently many peers. Existing literature typically assumes that the network structure and dynamics are fully known, which is often unrealistic.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dmitry Chistikov , Luisa Estrada , Mike Paterson , Paolo Turrini

Individuals increasingly rely on social networking platforms to form opinions. However, these platforms typically aim to maximize engagement, which may not align with social good. In this paper, we introduce an opinion dynamics model where…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-06 Ozan Candogan , Nicole Immorlica , Bar Light , Jerry Anunrojwong

The opinion dynamics of economic agents is modeled with the link structure influenced by the resulting opinions: Links between people of nearly the same opinion are more stable than those between people of vastly different opinions. A…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dietrich Stauffer , Martin Hohnisch , Sabine Pittnauer

Opinion and belief dynamics are a central topic in the study of social interactions through dynamical systems. In this work, we study a model where, at each discrete time, all the agents update their opinion as an average of their intrinsic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Javiera Gutiérrez-Ramírez , David Salas , Victor Verdugo

The rise of digital social media has strengthened the coevolution of public opinions and social interactions, that shape social structures and collective outcomes in increasingly complex ways. Existing literature often explores this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-20 Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Nhu Quang Vu , Sören Nagel

In traditional voter models, opinion dynamics are driven by interactions between individuals, where an individual adopts the opinion of a randomly chosen neighbor. However, these models often fail to capture the emergence of entirely new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-27 Jeehye Choi , Byungjoon Min , Tobias Galla

We investigate opinion dynamics in a fully-connected system, consisting of $n$ identical and anonymous agents, where one of the opinions (which is called correct) represents a piece of information to disseminate. In more detail, one source…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Amos Korman , Francesco Pasquale , Luca Trevisan , Robin Vacus

We study a model for social influence in which the agents' opinion is a continuous variable [G. Weisbuch et al., Complexity \textbf{7}, 2, 55 (2002)]. The convergent opinion adjustment process takes place as a result of random binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. F. Laguna , Guillermo Abramson , Damian H. Zanette