Partisan Confidence Model for Group Polarization
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چکیده
Models of opinion dynamics play a major role in various disciplines, including economics, political science, psychology, and social as they provide framework for analysis intervention. In spite the numerous mathematical models learning proposed literature, only few have focused on or allow possibility popular extreme beliefs' formation population. This paper closes this gap by introducing Partisan Confidence (PC) model inspired foundations well-established socio-psychological theory groupthink. The hints at existence tipping point, passing which opinions individuals within so-called “social bubble” are exaggerated towards an position, no matter how general population is united divided. results also justified through numerical experiments, new insights into evolution groupthink phenomenon.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2334-329X', '2327-4697']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tnse.2023.3255819