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SUBMITTER: Madsen JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6098126 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Madsen Jens Koed JK Bailey Richard M RM Pilditch Toby D TD
Scientific reports 20180817 1
Echo chambers (ECs) are enclosed epistemic circles where like-minded people communicate and reinforce pre-existing beliefs. It remains unclear if cognitive errors are necessarily required for ECs to emerge, and then how ECs are able to persist in networks with available contrary information. We show that ECs can theoretically emerge amongst error-free Bayesian agents, and that larger networks encourage rather than ameliorate EC growth. This suggests that the network structure itself contributes ...[more]