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Polarization and unexpected correlations between opinions on diverse topics (including in politics, culture and consumer choices) are an object of sustained attention. However, numerous theoretical models do not seem to convincingly explain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Abdou Majeed Alidou , Júlia Baligács , Max Hahn-Klimroth , Jan Hązła , Lukas Hintze , Olga Scheftelowitsch

Understanding how opinions spread through a community or how consensus emerges in noisy environments can have a significant impact on our comprehension of social relations among individuals. In this work a model for the dynamics of opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Schwammle , M. C. Gonzalez , A. A. Moreira , J. S. Jr. Andrade , H. J. Herrmann

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

A system of interacting walkers is considered in a two-dimensional hypothetical space, where the dynamics of each walker are governed by the opinion states of the agents of a fully connected three-state opinion dynamics model. Such walks,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Surajit Saha , Parongama Sen

We investigate majority-vote opinion dynamics on Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRGs), a powerful model for spatial complex networks. In contrast to classic coarsening dynamics where a single opinion typically achieves global…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mats Bierwirth , Johannes Lengler

Non-linear voter models assume that the opinion of an agent depends on the opinions of its neighbors in a non-linear manner. This allows for voting rules different from majority voting. While the linear voter model is known to reach…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-27 Frank Schweitzer , Laxmidhar Behera

We present a stochastic imitation-based model of opinion dynamics in which agents balance social conformity with responsiveness to an external signal. The model captures how populations evolve between two binary opinion states, driven by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-12 Federica De Domenico , Fabio Caccioli , Giacomo Livan

The behavior of pedestrians shows certain regularities, which can be described by quantitative (partly stochastic) models. The models are based on the behavior of individual pedestrians, which depends on the pedestrian intentions and on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

In this era of fast and large-scale opinion formation, a mathematical understanding of opinion evolution, a.k.a. opinion dynamics, is especially important. Linear graph-based dynamics and bounded confidence dynamics are the two most popular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Sushmitha Shree S , Kishore G , Avhishek Chatterjee , Krishna Jagannathan

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

We study an opinion formation model by the means of a co-evolving complex network where the vertices represent the individuals, characterised by their evolving opinions, and the edges represent the interactions among them. The network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Enrique Burgos , Laura Hernandez , Horacio Ceva , Roberto P. J. Perazzo

We here discuss a model of continuous 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. We concentrate on the version of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard Weisbuch , Guillaume Deffuant , Frederic Amblard

We introduce a stochastic model of binary opinion dynamics in which the opinions are determined by the size of the neighbouring domains. The exit probability here shows a step function behaviour indicating the existence of a separatrix…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-08 Soham Biswas , Suman Sinha , Parongama Sen

We introduce a utility-driven bounded-confidence model of opinion dynamics in which opinions associated with higher utility exert stronger social influence. In the regime where all agents belong to a single opinion cluster, we derive a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-22 Alex Siebenmorgen , Juan G. Restrepo

We study an opinion dynamics model that explores the competition between persuasion and compromise in a population of agents with nearest-neighbor interactions on a two-dimensional square lattice. Each agent can hold either a positive or a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-03 Fátima Velásquez-Rojas , Federico Vazquez

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel multi-agent opinion dynamics model in which agents have access to actions which are quantized version of the opinions of their neighbors. The model produces different behaviors observed in social…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-08 N. R. Chowdhury , I. -C. Morarescu , S. Martin , S. Srikant

In this article, I investigate the use of Bayesian updating rules applied to modeling social agents in the case of continuos opinions models. Given another agent statement about the continuous value of a variable $x$, we will see that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-04 Andre C. R. Martins

The voter model is a toy model of consensus formation based on nearest-neighbor interactions. A voter sits at each vertex in a hypercubic lattice (of dimension $d$) and is in one of two possible opinion states. The opinion state of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Pascal Grange

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

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