We study the effects of social influences in opinion dynamics. In particular, we define a
simple model, based on the majority rule voting, in order to consider the role of conformity …

Understanding and quantifying polarization in social systems is important because of many
reasons. It could for instance help to avoid segregation and conflicts in the society or to …

The q-voter model, a variant of the classic voter model, has been analyzed by several
authors. While allowing us to study opinion dynamics, this model is also believed to be one …

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 …

In this work we study opinion formation on a fully connected population participating of a
public debate with two distinct choices, where the agents may adopt three different attitudes …

A model of opinion dynamics based on social influence on networks was studied. The
opinion of each agent can have integer values i= 1, 2,..., I and opinion exchanges are …

The aim of this paper is to examine how different types of social influence, introduced on the
microscopic (individual) level, manifest on the macroscopic level, ie in the society. The …

In this article, we use a kinetic description to study the effect of different psychologies on the
evolution of the opinion with respect to a binary choice, in a closed group. We show that the …

Opinion dynamics concerns social processes through which populations or groups of
individuals agree or disagree on specific issues. As such, modelling opinion dynamics …

We investigate an agent-based model of opinion dynamics with two types of social
response: conformity and independence. Conformity is introduced to the model analogously …