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We propose a modified Vicsek-like model to study influence dynamics and opinion formation in social networks. We work on the premise that opinions of members of a group may be considered to be analogous to the direction of motion of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Narayani Vedam , Debasish Ghose

The dynamics of political opinion are a critical component of modern society with large-scale implications for the evolution of intra- and international political discourse and policy. Here we utilize recent high-resolution survey data to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-15 David Sabin-Miller , Christopher Harding

The adaptive voter model is widely used to model opinion dynamics in social complex networks. However, existing adaptive voter models are limited to only pairwise interactions and fail to capture the intricate social dynamics that arises in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-04 Anastasia Golovin , Jan Mölter , Christian Kuehn

We study a model of continuous opinion dynamics with both positive and negative mutual interaction. The model shows a continuous phase transition between a phase with consensus (order) and a phase having no consensus (disorder). The mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Sudip Mukherjee , Arnab Chatterjee

Many models of opinion dynamics include measures of distance between opinions. Such models are susceptible to boundary effects where the choice of the topology of the opinion space may influence the dynamics. In this paper we study an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-06 Frank P. Pijpers , Benedikt V. Meylahn , Michel R. H. Mandjes

We propose and investigate different kinetic models for opinion formation, when the opinion formation process depends on an additional independent variable, e.g. a leadership or a spatial variable. More specifically, we consider:(i) opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-05 Bertram Düring , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Opinion evolution and judgment revision are mediated through social influence. Based on a large crowdsourced in vitro experiment (n=861), it is shown how a consensus model can be used to predict opinion evolution in online collective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Corentin Vande Kerckhove , Samuel Martin , Pascal Gend , Peter J. Rentfrow , Julien M. Hendrickx , Vincent D. Blondel

The field of opinion dynamics has its roots in early research that applied methods from magnetic physics to gain insights into the formation of social opinions. A central challenge in this field lies in modeling how diverse opinions coexist…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-02 Yasuko Kawahata

Frequently we revise our first opinions after talking over with other individuals because we get convinced. Argumentation is a verbal and social process aimed at convincing. It includes conversation and persuasion. In this case, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-26 Juan Pablo Pinasco , Viktoriya Semeshenko , Pablo Balenzuela

We propose an agent-based opinion formation model characterised by a two-fold novelty. First, we realistically assume that each agent cannot measure the opinion of its neighbours with infinite resolution and accuracy, and hence it can only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Carlos Andres Devia , Giulia Giordano

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

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

We introduce a 2-state opinion dynamics model where agents evolve by majority rule. In each update, a group of agents is specified whose members then all adopt the local majority state. In the mean-field limit, where a group consists of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Formation of consensus, in binary yes/no type of voting, is a well defined process. However, even in presence of clear incentives, the dynamics involved can be incredibly complex. Specifically, formations of large groups of similarly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-14 Sudip Mukherjee , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Parongama Sen

The process of opinion expression and exchange is a critical component of democratic societies. As people interact with large language models (LLMs) in the opinion shaping process different from traditional media, the impacts of LLMs are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Chao Li , Xing Su , Haoying Han , Cong Xue , Chunmo Zheng , Chao Fan

This work explores models of opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent connectivity. Our starting point is that individuals have limited capabilities to engage in interactions with their peers. Motivated by this observation, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Francesca Ceragioli , Paolo Frasca , Wilbert Samuel Rossi

Understanding how group interactions influence opinion dynamics is fundamental to the study of collective behavior. In this work, we propose and study a model of opinion dynamics on $d$-uniform hypergraphs, where individuals interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Thierry Njougouo , Timoteo Carletti , Elio Tuci

We investigate, through a kinetic-exchange model, the impact that an external field, like advertising and propaganda, has on opinion dynamics. We address the situations where two opposite alternatives can be selected but the possibility of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Francisco Freitas , Allan R. Vieira , Celia Anteneodo

This paper introduces a model for opinion dynamics, where at each time step, randomly selected agents see their opinions - modeled as scalars in [0,1] - evolve depending on a local interaction function. In the classical Bounded Confidence…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Elisabetta Cornacchia , Neta Singer , Emmanuel Abbe

In this note we study a new kinetic model of opinion dynamics. The model incorporates two forces -- alignment of opinions under all-to-all communication driving the system to a consensus, and Rayleigh type friction force that drives each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Vinh Nguyen , Roman Shvydkoy