Social Influence of Competing Groups and Leaders in Opinion Dynamics

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dc.contributor.authorGlass, Catherin
dc.contributor.authorGlass, David H.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-22T15:15:33Z
dc.date.available2021-12-22T15:15:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-19
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 11 September 2020; Published online - 19 September 2020.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the infuence of two competing stubborn agent groups on the opinion dynamics of normal agents. Computer simulations are used to investigate the parameter space systematically in order to determine the impact of group size and extremeness on the dynamics and identify optimal strategies for maximizing numbers of followers and social infuence. Results show that (a) there are many cases where a group that is neither too large nor too small and neither too extreme nor too central achieves the best outcome, (b) stubborn groups can have a moderating, rather than polarizing, efect on the society in a range of circumstances, and (c) small changes in parameters can lead to transitions from a state where one stubborn group attracts all the normal agents to a state where the other group does so. We also explore how these fndings can be interpreted in terms of opinion leaders, truth, and campaignsen_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/386
dc.identifier.citationGlass, C.A. and Glass, D.H. (2020) ‘Social Influence of Competing Groups and Leaders in Opinion Dynamics’, Computational Economics. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1007/s10614-020-10049-7.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0927-7099
dc.identifier.issn1572-9974
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-020-10049-7
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
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dc.subjectStubborn agentsen_US
dc.subjectCompeting groupsen_US
dc.subjectHegelsmann-Krause modelen_US
dc.subjectOpinion dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectOpinion leaderen_US
dc.titleSocial Influence of Competing Groups and Leaders in Opinion Dynamicsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-09-11

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