CHANGING OPINIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD: A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIOPHYSICS

Alessandro Pluchino (), Vito Latora () and Andrea Rapisarda ()
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Alessandro Pluchino: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and Infn sezione di Catania, Universitá di Catania, Catania, I-95123, Italy
Vito Latora: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and Infn sezione di Catania, Universitá di Catania, Catania, I-95123, Italy
Andrea Rapisarda: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and Infn sezione di Catania, Universitá di Catania, Catania, I-95123, Italy

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2005, vol. 16, issue 04, 515-531

Abstract: We propose a new model of opinion formation, theOpinion Changing Rate(OCR) model. Instead of investigating the conditions that allow consensus in a world of agents with different opinions, we study the conditions under which a group of agents with different natural tendency (rate) to change opinion can find agreement. The OCR is a modified version of the Kuramoto model, one of the simplest models for synchronization in biological systems, adapted here to a social context. By means of several numerical simulations, we illustrate the richness of the OCR model dynamics and its social implications.

Keywords: Sociophysics; opinion dynamics models; synchronization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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