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Asymmetric Contrarians in Opinion Dynamics [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Asymmetry in contrarian behavior is investigated within the Galam model of opinion dynamics using update groups of size 3 with two competing opinions A and B.
Serge Galam, Taksu Cheon
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Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 The role of climate change (CC) contrarians is neglected in climate change communication studies. Here the authors used a data-driven approach to identify CC contrarians and CC scientists and found that CC scientists have much higher citation impact than
Alexander Michael Petersen +2 more
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Exploring Contrarian Degree in the Trading Behavior of China's Stock Market
Complexity, 2019 We study the contrarian and trend-following trading behavior of market timers in China's stock market. Using a network model to describe interpersonal relationships, we deploy the Ising model to capture trading strategies for both contrarians and ...
Yue Chen, Xiaojian Niu, Yan Zhang
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Unanimity, Coexistence, and Rigidity: Three Sides of Polarization
Entropy, 2023 Political polarization is perceived as a threat to democracies. Using the Galam model of opinion dynamics deployed in a five-dimensional parameter space, I show that polarization is the byproduct of an essential hallmark of a vibrant democratic society ...
Serge Galam
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Comparative and Critical Study of the Concept of Freedom in the thought of Kant and Heidegger [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022 In a sense, freedom is one of the most important concepts in the history of philosophy, which plays a fundamental role in the thought of philosophers, but like many other concepts, it needs to be redefined in order to survive in new conditions.
Issa Mousazadeh +2 more
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Risks, 2022 In contrarian trading, investors buy and sell loser stocks (lowest average historical prices) and winner stocks (highest average historical prices), respectively.
Parichat Sinlapates, Surachai Chancharat
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TWO-OPINIONS-DYNAMICS GENERATED BY INFLEXIBLES AND NON-CONTRARIAN AND CONTRARIAN FLOATERS [PDF]
Advances in Complex Systems, 2019 We assume a community whose members adopt one of two opinions [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. Each member appears as an inflexible, or as a non-contrarian or contrarian floater. An inflexible sticks to its opinion, whereas a floater may change into a floater of the alternative opinion. The occurrence of this change is governed by the local
Frans Jacobs, Serge Galam
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Indonesia Law Reform Journal, 2021 The auction winner as a legitimate buyer is often unable to retrieve the auction object that has been purchased because the object under the the previous owner. This led to the auction winner filing an execution lawsuit to the Court of Appeal. However,
Faradita Edsa Zahra +2 more
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Opinion Dynamics With Mobile Agents: Contrarian Effects by Spatial Correlations
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 We investigate the dynamics of opinion formation in a group of mobile agents with noisy perceptions. Two models are applied, the 2-state Galam opinion dynamics model with contrarians and an urn model of collective decision-making. It is shown that models
Heiko Hamann
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Journal of Applied Marketing Theory, 2012 The purposes of this study were twofold. First a typology for the categorization of consumers of spectator sports based solely upon their levels of consumption as members of both the live and the media-based audiences was developed.
Tammy McCullough, Sam Fullerton
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