Does the majority always know best? Young children's flexible trust in majority opinion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Copying the majority is generally an adaptive social learning strategy but the majority does not always know best. Previous work has demonstrated young children's selective uptake of information from a consensus over a lone dissenter.
Shiri Einav
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Steering polarization toward consensus in signed majority-vote opinion models [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSigned social networks, which encode both positive and negative relationships, frequently constrain opinion dynamics, leading to sustained polarization.
Masaki Chujyo, Shu Liu, Fujio Toriumi
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Interpretational Oppositions between the Majority Opinion of the Court and the Dissenting Opinion
Zbornik Znanstvenih Razprav, 2023 This article aims to identify the reasons for disagreement in interpretive judgments by examining selected cases from the Polish Supreme Administrative Court.
Maciej Wojciechowski
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Rise of an alternative majority against opinion leaders [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015 We investigate the role of opinion leaders or influentials in the collective behavior of a social system. Opinion leaders are characterized by their unidirectional influence on other agents.
K. Tucci +2 more
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Democratic Thwarting of Majority Rule in Opinion Dynamics: 1. Unavowed Prejudices Versus Contrarians [PDF]
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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Summarisation with Majority Opinion [PDF]
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, 2020 This paper introduces a method called SUmmarisation with Majority Opinion (SUMO) that integrates and extends two prior approaches for abstractively and extractively summarising UK House of Lords cases.
O. Ray, Amy Conroy, Rozano Imansyah
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Majority Opinion Diffusion in Social Networks: An Adversarial Approach [PDF]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020 We introduce and study a novel majority based opinion diffusion model. Consider a graph G, which represents a social network. Assume that initially a subset of nodes, called seed nodes or early adopters, are colored either black or white, which ...
Ahad N. Zehmakan
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Oh What Tangled Webs We Weave—Unpacking (and Unpicking) the Majority Opinion in Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization et al. [PDF]
British Journal of American Legal Studies, 2023 This paper evaluates the majority judgment in the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. It is suggested that much of what is said in the majority opinion ostensibly appears eminently defensible if viewed solely from
Ian Loveland
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Social influence and the collective dynamics of opinion formation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Social influence is the process by which individuals adapt their opinion, revise their beliefs, or change their behavior as a result of social interactions with other people. In our strongly interconnected society, social influence plays a prominent role
Mehdi Moussaïd +3 more
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Random Majority Opinion Diffusion: Stabilization Time, Absorbing States, and Influential Nodes [PDF]
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2023 Consider a graph G with n nodes and m edges, which represents a social network, and assume that initially each node is blue or white. In each round, all nodes simultaneously update their color to the most frequent color in their neighborhood.
Ahad N. Zehmakan
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