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PhysicsIn this study, we propose how to use objective arguments grounded in statistical mechanics concepts in order to obtain a single number, obtained after aggregation, which would allow for the ranking of “agents”, “opinions”, etc., all defined in a very ...
Marcel Ausloos +2 more
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Impact of the Network Size and Frequency of Information Receipt on Polarization in Social Networks
Complexity, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Opinion Dynamics is an interdisciplinary area of research. Disciplines of Psychology and Sociology have proposed models of how individuals form opinions and how social interactions influence this process. Sociophysicists have interpreted the observed patterns in opinion formation in individuals as arising out of nonlinearity in the underlying process ...
Sudhakar Krishnarao +2 more
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Are Socio-Econo-Physical Models Better to Explain Biases in Societies? [PDF]
Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences, 2018 In this work, we review various dynamical models in socio-econo-physics, and discuss their roles in understanding socio-economic biases. We deal with fairness in nations, wealth distributions in nations, elections’ dynamics and tax evasion models.
Soumyajyoti Biswas +2 more
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In Honor of Professor Serge Galam for His 70th Birthday and Forty Years of Sociophysics
Sociophysics emerged in the 1980s as a groundbreaking research field, paralleling physicists’ growing interest in understanding complex systems across diverse domains.
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, 2018 This chapter shows that a referendum, whatever the issue at stake, is a mechanism to turn our prejudices and fears into rational choices. To predict the outcome requires identifying the prejudices and fears which are prominent at the moment the ...
Galam, Serge
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PhysicsSocial structure may have changed from hierarchical to egalitarian and back along the evolutionary line of humans. Within the tradition of sociophysics, we construct a mathematical model of a society of agents subject to competing cognitive and social ...
Nestor Caticha +2 more
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A SUM of Science: The Taxonomy and Methodology of Sociophysics [PDF]
, 1993 Attempt to order the main parameters of scientific theory into a coherent taxonomy. To that end, a System Unification Model (SUM) is constructed which serves as a formal frame classifying the salient structures and functions of empirical existence.
Arnopoulos, Paris
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Conspiratorial Beliefs Observed through Entropy Principles
Entropy, 2015 We propose a novel approach framed in terms of information theory and entropy to tackle the issue of the propagation of conspiracy theories. We represent the initial report of an event (such as the 9/11 terroristic attack) as a series of strings of ...
Nataša Golo, Serge Galam
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Econophysics and Sociophysics: Trends and Perspectives
, 2006 Using tricks to handle coupled nonlinear dynamical many-body systems, several advancements have already been made in understanding the behavior of markets/economic/social systems and their dynamics.
Chatterjee, Arnab +2 more
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Analysing tax evasion dynamics via the Ising model
Opinion dynamics, Sociophysics, Ising model,
Georg Zaklan +2 more
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