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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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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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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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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Hermes, 2023 This paper conducts an exploratory investigation into the use of evaluative language in the historical section of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. (2022).
Polina Shvanyukova
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The Interest in Permanent Contraception Peaked Following the Leaked Supreme Court Majority Opinion of Roe vs. Wade: A Cross-Sectional Google Trends Analysis. [PDF]
Cureus, 2022 Ghomeshi A +4 more
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Out of sight out of mind: Psychological distance and opinion about the age of penal majority [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The growth of urban violence in Brazil, as in other countries, has led citizens to demand more severe and punitive measures to solve the problem of juvenile crime. One motion submitted to the Brazilian parliament, for instance, proposes to reduce the age
Ivete Furtado Ribeiro Caldas +6 more
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Statistics of opinion domains of the majority-vote model on a square lattice [PDF]
, 2010 The existence of juxtaposed regions of distinct cultures in spite of the fact that people's beliefs have a tendency to become more similar to each other's as the individuals interact repeatedly is a puzzling phenomenon in the social sciences.
Lucas R. Peres, José F. Fontanari
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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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