EVOLUTION OF EXTREMIST OPINIONS IN A POPULATION OF INTERACTING AGENTS

Nino Boccara ()
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Nino Boccara: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7059, USA;

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2010, vol. 21, issue 05, 617-628

Abstract: We have studied various spatial models of temporal evolution of opinions of a population of agents, located in a finite closed space, in which, at each time step, a given agent adopts, subject to a probability condition, a new opinion which depends upon the opinions of some of its neighbors. Moreover, at each time step each agent moves to a random neighboring location distributed according to a normal distribution with zero mean and a small standard deviation. The purpose of the paper is to find which types of interactions reduce the number of extremists.

Keywords: Opinion dynamics; extremism; democracy; agent-based modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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