Opinion formation models on a gradient.
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SUBMITTER: Gastner MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4256392 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Opinion formation models on a gradient.
Gastner Michael T MT Markou Nikolitsa N Pruessner Gunnar G Draief Moez M
PloS one 20141204 12
Statistical physicists have become interested in models of collective social behavior such as opinion formation, where individuals change their inherently preferred opinion if their friends disagree. Real preferences often depend on regional cultural differences, which we model here as a spatial gradient g in the initial opinion. The gradient does not only add reality to the model. It can also reveal that opinion clusters in two dimensions are typically in the standard (i.e., independent) percol ...[more]
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