FERROMAGNETIC FLUID AS A MODEL OF SOCIAL IMPACT

Piotr Fronczak (), Agata Fronczak () and Janusz A. Hołyst ()
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Piotr Fronczak: Faculty of Physics and Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Agata Fronczak: Faculty of Physics and Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland
Janusz A. Hołyst: Faculty of Physics and Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2006, vol. 17, issue 08, 1227-1235

Abstract: The paper proposes a new model of spin dynamics which can be treated as a model of sociological coupling between individuals. Our approach takes into account two different human features: Gregariousness and individuality. We will show how they affect a psychological distance between individuals and how the distance changes the opinion formation in a social group. Apart from its sociological aplications the model displays the variety of other interesting phenomena like self-organizing ferromagnetic state or a second order phase transition and can be studied from different points of view, e.g., as a model of ferromagnetic fluid, complex evolving network or multiplicative random process.

Keywords: Ising model; social impact; ferromagnetic fluids; multiplicative random processes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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