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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

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

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

In the so-called bounded confidence model proposed by Deffuant et al, agents can influence each other's opinion provided that opinions are already sufficiently close enough. We here discuss the influence of possible social networks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard Weisbuch

Collective opinions affect civic participation, governance, and societal norms. Due to the influence of opinion dynamics, many models of their formation and evolution have been developed. A commonly used approach for the study of opinion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Claudia Kann , Michelle Feng

In this paper, we study the evolution of opinions over social networks with bounded confidence in social cliques. Node initial opinions are independently and identically distributed; at each time step, nodes review the average opinions of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jiangbo Zhang , Deming Yuan , Lei Wang , Claudio Altafini , Guodong Shi

The study of opinions $-$ e.g., their formation and change, and their effects on our society $-$ by means of theoretical and numerical models has been one of the main goals of sociophysics until now, but it is one of the defining topics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-03 Francesca Giardini , Daniele Vilone , Rosaria Conte

Bounded confidence models of opinion dynamics have been actively studied in recent years, in particular, opinion formation and extremism propagation along with other aspects of social dynamics. In this work, after an analysis of limitations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Evguenii Kurmyshev , Héctor A. Juárez , Ricardo A. González-Silva

This paper introduces a generalised opinion model that extends the standard DeGroot model by representing agents' opinions and influences as soft constraints rather than single real values. This allows for modelling scenarios beyond the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Fabio Gadducci , Carlos Olarte , Frank Valencia

We introduce a novel non-cooperative game to analyse opinion formation and resistance, incorporating principles from social psychology such as confirmation bias, resource constraints, and influence penalties. Our simulation features Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amin Qasmi , Usman Naseem , Mehwish Nasim

We present an opinion model founded upon the principles of the bounded confidence interaction among agents. Our objective is to explain the polarization effects inherent to vector-valued opinions. The evolutionary process adheres to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jacek Cyranka , Piotr B. Mucha

People's opinions on a wide range of topics often evolve over time through their interactions with others. Models of opinion dynamics primarily focus on one-dimensional opinions, which represent opinions on one topic. However, opinions on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-01 Grace Jingying Li , Jiajie Luo , Weiqi Chu

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

This paper considers a discrete-time opinion dynamics model in which each individual's susceptibility to being influenced by others is dependent on her current opinion. We assume that the social network has time-varying topology and that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ji Liu , Mengbin Ye , Brian D. O. Anderson , Tamer Başar , Angelia Nedić

The diffusion of opinions in Social Networks is a relevant process for adopting positions and attracting potential voters in political campaigns. Opinion polarization, bias, targeted diffusion, and the radicalization of postures are key…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-10 Didier A. Vega-Oliveros , Helder L. C. Grande , Flavio Iannelli , Federico Vazquez

Traditional models of opinion dynamics provide a simple approach to understanding human behavior in basic social scenarios. However, when it comes to issues such as polarization and extremism, we require a more nuanced understanding of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-08 Andre C. R. Martins

We study opinion dynamics in a social network with stubborn agents who influence their neighbors but who themselves always stick to their initial opinion. We consider first the well-known DeGroot model. While it is known in the literature…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Olle Abrahamsson , Danyo Danev , Erik G. Larsson

In a previous paper we proposed a model to study the dynamics of opinion formation in human societies by a co-evolution process involving two distinct time scales of fast transaction and slower network evolution dynamics. In the transaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-22 Gerardo Iñiguez , Rafael A. Barrio , János Kertész , Kimmo K. Kaski

In coalitional games, traditional coalitional game theory does not apply if different participants hold different opinions about the payoff function that corresponds to each subset of the coalition. In this paper, we propose a framework in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Bomin Jiang , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

In a social network, individuals express their opinions on several interdependent topics, and therefore the evolution of their opinions on these topics is also mutually dependent. In this work, we propose a differential game model for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Hossein B. Jond , Aykut Yıldız