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Democratic Thwarting of Majority Rule in Opinion Dynamics: 1. Unavowed Prejudices Versus Contrarians
EntropyI study the conditions under which the democratic dynamics of a public debate drives a minority-to-majority transition. A landscape of the opinion dynamics is thus built using the Galam Majority Model (GMM) in a 3-dimensional parameter space for three ...
Serge Galam
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Contrarians, extrapolators, and stock market momentum and reversal [PDF]
, 2020 We document considerable cross-investor variation in survey expectations about aggregate stock market returns. While most investors are extrapolators who expect higher returns after a good market performance, some are contrarians who expect lower returns
Gulen, H. +7 more
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Onset of synchronization in contrarians with higher-order interactions [PDF]
, 2023 We investigate the impact of contrarians (via negative coupling) in a multilayer network of phase oscillators having higher-order interactions. We show that the multilayer framework facilitates synchronization onset in the negative pairwise coupling ...
Jalan, Sarika +2 more
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, 2023 This study investigates the impact of public opinion on individual policy preferences and how these preferences change over time. Using a novel experimental setup based on visual analogue scales and multiple policy-relevant issues, we uncover a ...
Peter John +4 more
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Rational Speculators, Contrarians and Excess Volatility [PDF]
, 2012 The VAR approach for testing present value models is applied to a nonlinear asset pricing model with three types of agents, using historical US stock prices and dividends.
Lof, Matthijs
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, 2011 This Article explores the role that “regulatory contrarians” can play in promoting more adaptive financial regulation. Such contrarians have several distinguishing features.
McDonnell, Brett, Schwarcz, Daniel
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Consensus and contrarianism on climate change: How the USA case informs dynamics elsewhere
Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2016 Against a contrasting backdrop of consensus on key issues on climate science, a heterogeneous group dubbed climate «skeptics», «contrarians», «deniers» have significantly shaped contemporary discussions of climate science, politics and policy in the ...
Maxwell Boykoff
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Negative response to an excessive bias by a mixed population of voters
Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 We study an outcome of a vote in a population of voters exposed to an externally applied bias in favour of one of two potential candidates. The population consists of ordinary individuals, that are in majority and tend to align their opinion with the ...
V.S. Dotsenko +2 more
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Effects of contrarians in the minority game [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2005 We study the effects of the presence of contrarians in an agent-based model of competing populations. Contrarians are common in societies. These contrarians are agents who deliberately prefer to hold an opinion that is contrary to the prevailing idea of the commons or normal agents. Contrarians are introduced within the context of the Minority Game (MG)
Zheng, Da-Fang +7 more
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, 2023 Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672231217630 for All You Nonconformists Are (Not) All Alike: Dissociable Social Stereotypes of Mavericks and Contrarians by Brian W. Haas, W. Keith Campbell, Xiaobin Lou and Rowena J.
Rowena J. Xia (17377486) +3 more
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