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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

The spatial organization of individuals and their interactions in communities are important factors known to preserve diversity in many complex systems. Inspired by metapopulation models from ecology, we study opinion formation using a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Tim Mauch , Thilo Gross

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

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

In recent years, statistical physics' methodologies have proven extremely successful in offering insights into the mechanisms that govern social interactions. However, the question of whether these models are able to capture trends observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-28 Clara Eminente , Oriol Artime , Manlio De Domenico

The increasing capability of Large Language Models to act as human-like social agents raises two important questions in the area of opinion dynamics. First, whether these agents can generate effective arguments that could be injected into…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Simon Martin Breum , Daniel Vædele Egdal , Victor Gram Mortensen , Anders Giovanni Møller , Luca Maria Aiello

The cognitive process of opinion formation is often characterized by stubbornness or resistance of agents to changes of opinion. To capture such a feature we introduce a constant latency time in the standard voter model of opinion dynamics:…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-27 Giovanni Palermo , Anna Mancini , Antonio Desiderio , Riccardo Di Clemente , Giulio Cimini

In this paper, we study how to shape opinions in social networks when the matrix of interactions is unknown. We consider classical opinion dynamics with some stubborn agents and the possibility of continuously influencing the opinions of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vivek Borkar , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson

Opinion dynamics models how the publicly expressed opinions of users in a social network coevolve according to their neighbors as well as their own intrinsic opinion. Motivated by the real-world manipulation of social networks during the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Akhil Jalan , Marios Papachristou

Online social media platforms enable influencers to distribute content and quickly capture audience reactions, significantly shaping their promotional strategies and advertising agreements. Understanding how sentiment dynamics and emotional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yulong He , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Artem Sedakov

Networked multi-agent dynamical systems have been used to model how individual opinions evolve over time due to the opinions of other agents in the network. Particularly, such a model has been used to study how a planning agent can be used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sheryl Paul , Leslie Cruz Juarez , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Ketan Savla

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

Opinion dynamics on social networks have been received considerable attentions in recent years. Nevertheless, just a few works have theoretically analyzed the condition in which a certain opinion can spread in the whole structured…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zhifang Li , Xiaojie Chen , Han-Xin Yang , Attila Szolnoki

We introduce a new agent-based model of opinion dynamics in which binary opinions (yes/no) of each agent can be measured and described regarding both pre- and post-influence at both of two levels, public and private, vis-\`a-vis the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-16 Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski , Grzegorz Marcjasz , Paul R. Nail , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

Opinions are an integral part of how we perceive the world and each other. They shape collective action, playing a role in democratic processes, the evolution of norms, and cultural change. For decades, researchers in the social and natural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-21 Antonio F. Peralta , János Kertész , Gerardo Iñiguez

The heterogeneity of the influence processes is an important feature of social systems: how we perceive social influence and how we influence other individuals is heavily influenced by our opinion and non-opinion attributes. The latter…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ivan V. Kozitsin

This paper investigates a model of opinion formation on an adaptive social network, consisting of a system of coupled ordinary differential equations for individuals' opinions and corresponding network edge weights. A key driver of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-04 Andrew Nugent , Carmen Calatayud Fernandez , Susana N. Gomes

Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists, but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging interdisciplinary field of complex system science. Opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-23 Alina Sîrbu , Vittorio Loreto , Vito D. P. Servedio , Francesca Tria

The effects of interpersonal interactions on individual's agreements result in a social aggregation process which is reflected in the formation of collective states, as for instance, groups of individuals with a similar opinion about a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Pablo Balenzuela , Juan Pablo Pinasco , Viktoriya Semeshenko

Understanding the mechanisms behind opinion formation is crucial for gaining insight into the processes that shape political beliefs, cultural attitudes, consumer choices, and social movements. This work aims to explore a nuanced model that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mateusz Nurek , Joanna Kołaczek , Radosław Michalski , Bolesław K. Szymański , Omar Lizardo