Openness leads to opinion stability and narrowness to volatility

DOI10.1142/S0219525910002633MaRDI QIDQ3585127zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Sylvie Huet, Guillaume Deffuant

Publication date 19 August 2010

Published in Advances in Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7284

zbMATH Keywords

attitudeattractionindividual based modelnarrownessopennessopinion dynamicsrejection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Cognitive psychology (91E10)

Abstract: We propose a new opinion dynamic model based on the experiments and results of Wood et al (1996). We consider pairs of individuals discussing on two attitudinal dimensions, and we suppose that one dimension is important, the other secondary. The dynamics are mainly ruled by the level of agreement on the main dimension. If two individuals are close on the main dimension, then they attract each other on the main and on the secondary dimensions, whatever their disagreement on the secondary dimension. If they are far from each other on the main dimension, then too much proximity on the secondary dimension is uncomfortable, and generates rejection on this dimension. The proximity is defined by comparing the opinion distance with a threshold called attraction threshold on the main dimension and rejection threshold on the secondary dimension. With such dynamics, a population with opinions initially uniformly drawn evolves to a set of clusters, inside which secondary opinions fluctuate more or less depending on threshold values. We observe that a low attraction threshold favours fluctuations on the secondary dimension, especially when the rejection threshold is high. The opinion evolutions of the model can be related to some stylised facts.

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