Tangled Worldview Model of Opinion Dynamics

We study the joint evolution of worldviews by proposing a model of opinion dynamics, which is inspired in notions from evolutionary ecology. Agents update their opinion on a specific issue based on their propensity to change—asserted by the social neighbors—weighted by their mutual similarity on oth...

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Main Authors: Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E. Rosas, Henrik J. Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphy.2019.00163/full