Opinion dynamics involving contrarian and independence behaviors based on the Sznajd model with two-two and three-one agent interactions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2022.133379MaRDI QIDQ2167970zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roni Muslim, M. Jauhar Kholili, Ahmad R. T. Nugraha

Publication date 1 September 2022

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03351

zbMATH Keywords

complete-graphopinion dynamicsphase transitionSznajd modeluniversality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: We investigate the opinion evolution of outflow dynamics based on the Sznajd model on a complete graph involving contrarian and independence behaviors. We consider a group of four spins representing the social agents with the following scenarios: (1) scenario two-two with contrarian agents or independence agents and (2) scenario three-one with contrarian or independence agents. All of them undergo a second-order phase transition according to our simulation. The critical point decreases exponentially as $lambda$ and $f$ increases, where $lambda$ and $f$ are contrarian and flexibility factors, respectively. Furthermore, we find that the critical point of scenario three-one is smaller than that of scenario two-two. For the same level of $lambda$ and $f$, the critical point of the scenario involving independence is smaller than the scenario with contrarian agents. From a sociophysics point of view, we observe that scenario three-one can likely reach a stalemate situation rather than scenario two-two. Surprisingly, the scenarios involving contrarians have a higher probability of achieving a consensus than a scenario involving independence. Our estimates of the critical exponents indicate that the model is still in the same universality class as the mean-field Ising model.

Review text

This paper studies the opinion dynamics of the Sznajd model using both behaviors of contrarian and independence. Four-spin local interactions are defined on a complete graph. The key parameter is the magnetization \(m=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^NS_i\), which is the average opinion in social dynamics. Here, \(N\) is the total population and \(S_i\) represents the spin which takes \(1\) or \(-1\). The model is divided into two-two scenario and three-one scenario for developing the microscopic rules of the outflow dynamics with contrarian and independent characters. For the independence behavior, the flexibility parameter is adopted as the level of independence. For the contrarian behavior, a contrarian factor is used to describe the level of contrarian character. The phase transition, probability density function, and the Landau approach for the phase transition have been explored analytically and numerically.

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