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How Does a Minority Opinion Spread?
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023 In this paper, we propose a discrete opinion model in which two beliefs models compete. One opinion is endorsed by the vast majority of agents, but this majority remains silent and rarely expresses its opinion.
Luca Baccino, Serena Villata
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Contrarian Majority Rule Model with External Oscillating Propaganda and Individual Inertias
Entropy, 2023 We study the Galam majority rule dynamics with contrarian behavior and an oscillating external propaganda in a population of agents that can adopt one of two possible opinions. In an iteration step, a random agent interacts with three other random agents
Maria Cecilia Gimenez +3 more
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The impact of individual biases on consensus formation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Social groups of interacting agents display an ability to coordinate in the absence of a central authority, a phenomenon that has been recently amplified by the widespread availability of social networking technologies.
Marta Sales-Pardo +2 more
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Delimitation of the Borders of participation, Opinion of the Majority in the Quran and the Sunna [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق اسلامی, 2010 Validity and extent of the influence of people′s opinion in the decisions made by the political system run under the guardiance of the jurisprudent sometimes have confused the Muslim nation due to extremist views. Claiming human rights for the purpose of
vali rostami, ahmad najafi
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American Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 Replicated international studies have underscored the human and societal costs associated with major depressive disorder. Despite the proven efficacy of monoamine-based antidepressants in major depression, the majority of treated individuals fail to ...
R. McIntyre +24 more
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Standing the Test of Time: The Breadth of Majority Coalitions and the Fate of U.S. Supreme Court Precedents [PDF]
, 2012 Should a strategic Justice assemble a broader coalition for the majority opinion than is necessary, even if that means accommodating changes that move the opinion away from the author’s ideal holding?
Benjamin, Stuart M., Desmarais, Bruce A.
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Asymmetric Contrarians in Opinion Dynamics
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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Three-state majority-vote model on small-world networks
Scientific Reports, 2022 In this work, we study the opinion dynamics of the three-state majority-vote model on small-world networks of social interactions. In the majority-vote dynamics, an individual adopts the opinion of the majority of its neighbors with probability 1-q, and ...
Bernardo J. Zubillaga +5 more
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Stakes and expertise modulate conformity in economic choice
Scientific Reports, 2021 The influences of expertise and group size on an individual’s tendency to align with a majority opinion have been attributed to informational and normative conformity, respectively: Whereas the former refers to the treatment of others’ decisions as ...
Jordanne Greenberg, Mimi Liljeholm
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Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority
Global Change Biology, 2022 Biodiversity conservation faces a methodological conundrum: Biodiversity measurement often relies on species, most of which are rare at various scales, especially prone to extinction under global change, but also the most challenging to sample and model.
A. Jeliazkov +8 more
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