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Negative information often exerts a disproportionately strong impact on human decision-making, a phenomenon known as the negativity bias. In behavioral economics, this effect is formally captured by Prospect Theory, which posits that losses…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-25 Maciej Doniec , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron , Federico Vazquez

Modelling efforts in opinion dynamics have to a large extent ignored that opinion exchange between individuals can also have an effect on how willing they are to express their opinion publicly. Here, we introduce a model of public opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-14 Felix Gaisbauer , Eckehard Olbrich , Sven Banisch

On directed Small-World networks the Majority-vote model with noise is now studied through Monte Carlo simulations. In this model, the order-disorder phase transition of the order parameter is well defined in this system. We calculate the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Edina M. S. Luz , F. W. S. Lima

Social media have quickly become a prevalent channel to access information, spread ideas, and influence opinions. However, it has been suggested that social and algorithmic filtering may cause exposure to less diverse points of view, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Dimitar Nikolov , Diego F. M. Oliveira , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer

This paper studies social system inference from a single trajectory of public evolving opinions, wherein observation noise leads to the statistical dependence of samples on time and coordinates. We first propose a cyber-social system that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yanbing Mao , Naira Hovakimyan , Tarek Abdelzaher , Evangelos Theodorou

We study a nonequilibrium model with up-down symmetry and a noise parameter $q$ known as majority-vote model of M.J. Oliveira $1992$ on opinion-dependent network or Stauffer-Hohnisch-Pittnauer networks. By Monte Carlo simulations and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 F. W. S. Lima

Collaborative filtering is the process of making recommendations regarding the potential preference of a user, for example shopping on the Internet, based on the preference ratings of the user and a number of other users for various items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Rita Sharma , David L Poole

A filter bubble refers to the phenomenon where Internet customization effectively isolates individuals from diverse opinions or materials, resulting in their exposure to only a select set of content. This can lead to the reinforcement of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Qazi Mohammad Areeb , Mohammad Nadeem , Shahab Saquib Sohail , Raza Imam , Faiyaz Doctor , Yassine Himeur , Amir Hussain , Abbes Amira

We present numerical simulations of a model of social influence, where the opinion of each agent is represented by a binary vector. Agents adjust their opinions as a result of random encounters, whenever the difference between opinions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. F. Laguna , Guillermo Abramson , Damian H. Zanette

The majority-vote model with noise on random graphs has been studied. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to characterize the order-disorder phase transition appearing in the system. We found that the value of the critical noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luiz F. C. Pereira , F. G. Brady Moreira

Designing feasible control strategies for opinion dynamics in complex social systems has never been an easy task. It requires a control protocol which 1) is not enforced on all individuals in the society, and 2) does not exclusively rely on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-27 Wei Su , Xianzhong Chen , Yongguang Yu , Ge Chen

The voter model consists of a set of agents whose opinion is a binary variable. At each time step, an agent along with a social neighbor is selected and the agent imitates the social neighbor at the next time step. In this paper, we study a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Hsin-Lun Li

Social networks have provided a platform for the effective exchange of ideas or opinions but also served as a hotbed of polarization. While much research attempts to explore different causes of opinion polarization, the effect of perception…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-12 Hao Yu , Bin Xue , Yanpeng Zhu , Jianlin Zhang , Run-Ran Liu , Yu Liu , Fanyuan Meng

We propose an exactly solvable model for the dynamics of voters in a two-party system. The opinion formation process is modeled on a random network of agents. The dynamical nature of interpersonal relations is also reflected in the model,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 I. J. Benczik , S. Z. Benczik , B. Schmittmann , R. K. P. Zia

Politics around the world exhibits increasing polarization, demonstrated in part by rigid voting configurations in institutions like legislatures or courts. A crux of polarization is separation along a unidimensional ideological axis, but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-12 Edward D. Lee

Given a transition matrix $P$ indexed by a finite set $V$ of vertices, the voter model is a discrete-time Markov chain in $\{0,1\}^V$ where at each time-step a randomly chosen vertex $x$ imitates the opinion of vertex $y$ with probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Richard Pymar , Nicolás Rivera

Online social networks are used to diffuse opinions and ideas among users, enabling a faster communication and a wider audience. The way in which opinions are conditioned by social interactions is usually called social influence. Social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Federico Corò , Emilio Cruciani , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Stefano Ponziani

This paper introduces a new model of continuous opinion dynamics with random noise. The model belongs to the broad class of so called bounded confidence models. It differs from other popular bounded confidence models by the update rule,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-06-02 P. Nyczka

Nowadays, recommendation systems have become crucial to online platforms, shaping user exposure by accurate preference modeling. However, such an exposure strategy can also reinforce users' existing preferences, leading to a notorious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Difu Feng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Cong Hua , Zhiyong Yang , Qingming Huang

The voter model is a classical interacting particle system modelling how consensus is formed across a network. We analyse the time to consensus for the voter model when the underlying graph is a subcritical scale-free random graph.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-02 John Fernley , Marcel Ortgiese