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Polarization is a problem in modern society. Understanding how opinions evolve through social interactions is crucial for addressing conditions that lead to polarization, consensus, or opinion diversity. Classical opinion dynamics models…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-06 Brian Mintz , Daniel Simonson , Dominik Wodarz , Feng Fu , Natalia L. Komarova

The massive amount of text data on the web has facilitated research on the quantitative analysis of public opinion, which could not be visualized earlier. In this paper, we propose a new opinion dynamics theory. This theory that is intended…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-01 Akira Ishii , Yasuko Kawahata

We recently proposed a model coupling the evolution of the opinions of the individual with the local network topology. The opinion dynamics is based on the Bounded Confidence model. The social networks is based on a group concept where each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-19 F. Gargiulo , S. Huet

A model for opinion dynamics (Model I) has been recently introduced in which the binary opinions of the individuals are determined according to the size of their neighboring domains (population having the same opinion). The coarsening…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Soham Biswas , Parongama Sen , Purusattam Ray

Motivated by the literature on opinion dynamics and evolutionary game theory, we propose a novel mathematical framework to model the intertwined coevolution of opinions and decision-making in a complex social system. In the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Ming Cao

We introduce and discuss kinetic models of opinion formation on social networks in which the distribution function depends on both the opinion and the connectivity of the agents. The opinion formation model is subsequently coupled with a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-22 G. Toscani , A. Tosin , M. Zanella

We present a model that explores the influence of persuasion in a population of agents with positive and negative opinion orientations. The opinion of each agent is represented by an integer number $k$ that expresses its level of agreement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-30 C. E. La Rocca , L. A. Braunstein , F. Vazquez

We propose a discrete model for how opinion about a given phenomenon, about which various groups of a population have different degrees of enthusiasm, such as fanaticism and extreme social and political positions, including terrorism, may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Dietrich Stauffer , Muhammad Sahimi

During the last decades, quite a number of interacting particle systems have been introduced and studied in the border area of mathematics and statistical physics. Some of these can be seen as simplistic models for opinion formation…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-14 Timo Hirscher

Unlike many complex networks studied in the literature, social networks rarely exhibit unanimous behavior, or consensus. This requires a development of mathematical models that are sufficiently simple to be examined and capture, at the same…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Sergey E. Parsegov , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Roberto Tempo , Noah E. Friedkin

Many models have been proposed to analyze the evolution of opinion structure due to the interaction of individuals in their social environment. Such models analyze the spreading of ideas both in completely interacting backgrounds and on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Gargiulo , S. Huet

Modern political interaction is characterized by strong partisanship and a lack of interest in information sharing and agreement across party lines. It remains largely unclear how such partisan echo chambers arise and how they coevolve with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-04 Tucker Evans , Feng Fu

We explore a new mechanism to explain polarization phenomena in opinion dynamics in which agents evaluate alternative views on the basis of the social feedback obtained on expressing them. High support of the favored opinion in the social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-22 Sven Banisch , Eckehard Olbrich

Opinion spreading in a society decides the fate of elections, the success of products, and the impact of political or social movements. The model by Hegselmann and Krause is a well-known theoretical model to study such opinion formation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Petra Berenbrink , Martin Hoefer , Dominik Kaaser , Pascal Lenzner , Malin Rau , Daniel Schmand

This work introduces a Bayesian framework that unifies a wide class of opinion dynamics models. In this framework, an individual's opinion on a topic is the expected value of their belief, represented as a random variable with a prior…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-25 Yen-Shao Chen , Tauhid Zaman

We here discuss the process of opinion formation in an open community where agents are made to interact and consequently update their beliefs. New actors (birth) are assumed to replace individuals that abandon the community (deaths). This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-07-28 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Alessio Guarino , Franco Bagnoli , Andrea Guazzini

Dispersal is often used by living beings to gather information from conspecifics, integrating it with personal experience to guide decision-making. This mechanism has only recently been studied experimentally, facilitated by advancements in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-03 Daniela Molas , Daniel Campos

We study the ordering dynamics of nonlinear voter models with multiple states, also providing a discussion of the two-state model. The rate with which an individual adopts an opinion scales as the $q$-th power of the number of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-01 Lucía Soledad Ramirez , Federico Vazquez , Maxi San Miguel , Tobias Galla

We present a model of opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encounters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold. High thresholds yield convergence of opinions towards…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard Weisbuch , Guillaume Deffuant , Frederic Amblard , Jean Pierre Nadal

The voter model on networks is crucial to understand opinion formation. Uni-directional social interactions are ubiquitous in real social networks whereas undirected interactions are intensively studied. We establish a voter model on a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-13 Yakun Wang , Bin Wu