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Stabilizing Consensus with Many Opinions [PDF]
, 2015 We consider the following distributed consensus problem: Each node in a complete communication network of size $n$ initially holds an \emph{opinion}, which is chosen arbitrarily from a finite set $\Sigma$.
Becchetti, Luca +4 more
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Effect of Heterogeneity in Initial Geographic Distribution on Opinions’ Competitiveness
Entropy, 2015 Spin dynamics on networks allows us to understand how a global consensus emerges out of individual opinions. Here, we are interested in the effect of heterogeneity in the initial geographic distribution of a competing opinion on the competitiveness of ...
Alexander S. Balankin +5 more
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Sentiment analysis is a modern task in natural language processing and linguistics. Also referred to as opinion mining, it deals with different kinds of affective states: opinion, emotions, stance and evaluations.
Maksimenko Olga +3 more
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Chaotic, staggered and polarized dynamics in opinion forming: the contrarian effect [PDF]
, 2006 We revisit the no tie breaking 2-state Galam contrarian model of opinion dynamics for update groups of size 3. While the initial model assumes a constant density of contrarians a for both opinions, it now depends for each opinion on its global support ...
C. J. Tessone +8 more
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Complexity, 2021 Social media chat groups, such as WeChat and WhatsApp groups, are widely applied in online communication. This research has conducted two studies to examine the individual level and collective level’s opinion dynamics in those groups. The opinion dynamic
Siyuan Ma, Hongzhong Zhang
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Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in America
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019 In American mythology, the town meetings of colonial New England are the storied source of the nation’s democracy. But early New Englanders allowed the great majority of their adult males to vote only because they had no other way to secure social order.
Michael Zuckerman
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The Comparative Influence of Majority and Expert Opinion (1921) [PDF]
The American Journal of Psychology, 1921 Henry T. Moore
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Concentrated burdens: how self-interest and partisanship shape opinion on opioid treatment policy [PDF]
, 2019 When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self-interest is only a minor force in public opinion.
De Benedictis-Kessner, Justin +1 more
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Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls [PDF]
, 2017 This article analyzes the evolution of gay and lesbian rights and same-sex marriage in American public opinion. It describes how Obergefell v. Hodges, state-level decisions and the public opinion trends can be considered as the outcome of a grassroots ...
Morini, Marco
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International Journal of Communication, 2022 Using spiral of silence and social loafing theories, this study proposed a parallel mechanism to explain why people defend their stances on controversial sociopolitical issues through political consumption behaviors (i.e., boycott and buycott) when they
Cheng Hong, Cong Li
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