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Social dynamics through kinetic exchange: the BChS model
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 This review presents an overview of the current research in kinetic exchange models for opinion formation in a society. The review begins with a brief introduction to previous models and subsequently provides an in-depth discussion of the progress ...
Soumyajyoti Biswas +4 more
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Science Education, Volume 106, Issue 6, Page 1535-1567, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The assessment of Nigerian teachers' climate science literacy and training needs on climate change concepts (i.e., causes, impacts, and solutions) are absent. This study relates teachers' climate science literacy and their expressed training needs in other climate change concepts and places teachers in groups.
Emmanuel Eze +2 more
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A Reputation Game Simulation: Emergent Social Phenomena from Information Theory
Annalen der Physik, Volume 534, Issue 5, May 2022., 2022 Sociophysical simulations of a reputation game are presented. The participating agents exchange honest or dishonest statements, which are about third agents or themselves, while trying to be perceived as being honest. Different social phases can be identified, in particular when malicious communication strategies are used.
Torsten Enßlin +2 more
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Collective Strategy Condensation: When Envy Splits Societies
Entropy, 2021 Human societies are characterized by three constituent features, besides others. (A) Options, as for jobs and societal positions, differ with respect to their associated monetary and non-monetary payoffs.
Claudius Gros
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Phase Diagram for Social Impact Theory in Initially Fully Differentiated Society
Physics, 2023 The study of opinion formation and dynamics is one of the core topics in sociophysics. In this paper, the results of computer simulation of opinion dynamics based on social impact theory are presented.
Krzysztof Malarz, Tomasz Masłyk
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A Computational Turn in Policy Process Studies: Coevolving Network Dynamics of Policy Change
Complexity, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 The past three decades of policy process studies have seen the emergence of a clear intellectual lineage with regard to complexity. Implicitly or explicitly, scholars have employed complexity theory to examine the intricate dynamics of collective action in political contexts.
Maxime Stauffer +6 more
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Influence of Irrigation Drivers Using Boosted Regression Trees: Kansas High Plains
Water Resources Research, Volume 57, Issue 5, May 2021., 2021 Abstract Groundwater levels across parts of western Kansas have been declining at unsustainable rates due to pumping for agricultural irrigation despite water‐saving efforts. Accelerating this decline is the complex agricultural landscape, consisting of both categorical (e.g., management boundaries) and numerical (e.g., crop prices) factors that drive ...
Susan E. Lamb +2 more
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Physicists, non physical topics, and interdisciplinarity
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Defining interdisciplinary physics today requires first a reformulation of what is physics today, which in turn calls for clarifying what makes a physicist. This assessment results from my 40-year journey arguing and fighting to build sociophysics.
Serge Galam
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Addressing behavior in pollinator conservation policies to combat the implementation gap
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 610-622, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Solutions for conserving biodiversity lie in changing people's behavior. Ambitious international and national conservation policies frequently fail to effectively mitigate biodiversity loss because they rarely apply behavior‐change theories.
Melissa R. Marselle +4 more
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Graph-Based Generalization of Galam Model: Convergence Time and Influential Nodes
Physics, 2023 We study a graph-based generalization of the Galam opinion formation model. Consider a simple connected graph which represents a social network. Each node in the graph is colored either blue or white, which indicates a positive or negative opinion on a ...
Sining Li, Ahad N. Zehmakan
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