Consensus Emerging from the Bottom-up: the Role of Cognitive Variables in Opinion Dynamics
The study of opinions − e.g., their formation and change, and their effects on our society − by means of theoretical and numerical models has been one of the main goals of sociophysics until now, but it is one of the defining topics addressed by social psychology and complexity science. Despite the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2015.00064/full |