Conciliatory and contradictory dynamics in opinion formation

Laurent Boudin, Aurore Mercier and Francesco Salvarani

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2012, vol. 391, issue 22, 5672-5684

Abstract: In this article, we use a kinetic description to study the effect of different psychologies on the evolution of the opinion with respect to a binary choice, in a closed group. We show that the interaction between individuals with different reactions regarding the exchange of opinion induces certain phenomena, such as the concentration of opinions or the cyclic-in-time behaviour of the distribution function. We provide an existence and uniqueness result for the model, and numerically test it in some relevant cases.

Keywords: Sociophysics; Opinion dynamics; Kinetic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.05.070

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