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Opinion clustering arises from the collective behavior of a social network. We apply an Opinion Dynamics model to investigate opinion cluster formation in the presence of community structure. Opinion clustering is influenced by the properties of individuals (nodes) and network topology. We determine the sensitivity of opinion cluster formation to changes in node tolerance levels through paramet...

As a transdiagnostic vulnerability factor, low distress tolerance predicts wide variety of psychopathology. The current article extends past research, which has typically adopted an individual-differences approach, by articulating social-cognitive theory momentary tolerance. This new model intentionally separates actions taken to remain engaged with (i.e., tolerance) from avoidance/escape assoc...

Taking a decision in democratic social groups (societies) is based on the opinion of the majority or on the consensus, if it is the case. Personalities and opinions of individuals constituting a social group in different stages of its development are used to be heterogeneous. The difference in opinions is indeed a motive to changes in a social group. So, the study of opinion dynamics is of grea...

Advanced industrialized democracies have seen an increase in the ethnic and racial diversity of their populations, and the impact of this diversity for democratic politics has received increasing attention. In this paper, I examine the impact of increasing social diversity on young people's attitudes about speech rights in two countries: Canada and Belgium. In particular, this paper will examin...

BACKGROUND The association of pain and socioeconomic status is widely reported, yet much less clearly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of experimentally induced pain threshold and tolerance with socioeconomic status. MATERIAL/METHODS The study sample consisted of 319 adult subjects from the population of the island of Vis, Croatia, which was previously show...

Social learning provides an effective route to gaining up-to-date information, particularly when information is costly to obtain asocially. Theoretical work predicts that the willingness to switch between using asocial and social sources of information will vary between individuals according to their risk tolerance. We tested the prediction that, where there are sex differences in risk toleranc...

Across a broad variety of primate species (including lemurs, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes), proactive prosociality and social tolerance are linked to allomaternal care, reaching the highest levels in the cooperatively breeding callitrichid monkeys and humans. However, considerable variation exists within callitrichids, and the aim of this study was to identify factors that exp...