CONTINUOUS OPINIONS AND DISCRETE ACTIONS IN OPINION DYNAMICS PROBLEMS

André C. R. Martins ()
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André C. R. Martins: GRIFE - Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2008, vol. 19, issue 04, 617-624

Abstract: A model where agents show discrete behavior regarding their actions, but have continuous opinions that are updated by interacting with other agents is presented. This new updating rule is applied to both the voter and Sznajd models for interaction between neighbors, and its consequences are discussed. The appearance of extremists is naturally observed and it seems to be a characteristic of this model.

Keywords: Opinion dynamics; voter model; Sznajd model; Bayes rule; 87.23.Ge; 05.65.+b; 89.65.-s (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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