Deception and Convergence of Opinions

André C. R. Martins ()
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2005, vol. 8, issue 2, 3

Abstract: This article studies what happens when someone tries to decide between two com¬peting ideas simply by reading descriptions of experiments done by others. The agent is modeled as rational person, adopting Bayesian rules and the effect that the possibility that each article might be a deception is analyzed.

Keywords: Opinion Dynamics; Deception; Confirmation Theory; Epistemology; Rational Agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-03-31
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