 Who is left, who is right?Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron and Józef Sznajd Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2005, vol. 351, issue 2, 593-604 Abstract: We propose a model to simulate the process of opinion formation in a society where the traditional division into leftists and rightists is not enough any longer. The model is based on the Ashkin–Teller idea to assign two Ising spins to each site (agent). The two states (up and down) of the first spin represent two possible opinions on any question in an economic area, and the two states of the second spin in a personal area. We assume that the mechanisms of opinion formation in both of these areas are different. The interaction between them is introduced in the form of a tolerance factor. It has been found, among others, that the formation of consensus between groups of agents which differ only in the economic area is quite simple, whereas if they differ in the personal area no consensus is possible. Keywords: Agent-based model; Ising model; Ashkin–Teller (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:351:y:2005:i:2:p:593-604 DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.12.038 Access Statistics for this article Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier |
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