Social influence is the process by which individuals adapt their opinion, revise their beliefs,
or change their behavior as a result of social interactions with other people. In our strongly …

Recently, social phenomena have received a lot of attention not only from social scientists,
but also from physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, in the emerging …

Opinion dynamics have attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. Local
interactions among individuals create interesting dynamics for the system as a whole. Such …

Opinion exchange models aim to describe the process of public opinion formation, seeking
to uncover the intrinsic mechanism in social systems; however, the model results are seldom …

Opinions are an integral part of how we perceive the world and each other. They shape
collective action, playing a role in democratic processes, the evolution of norms, and cultural …

In this age of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, there is rapidly growing interest in
understanding network-enabled opinion dynamics in large groups of autonomous agents …

Current opinion formation models typically assume that two individuals (agents) will
communicate with each other only if the distance between their opinions is less than a …

Modern political interaction is characterized by strong partisanship and a lack of interest in
information sharing and agreement across party lines. It remains largely unclear how such …

The connection between contradictory public opinions, heterogeneous beliefs, and the
emergence of majority-or minority-induced extremism is studied, extending our former two …

We investigate the coevolutionary dynamics of opinions and networks based upon majority-
preference (MP) and minority-avoidance (MA) rules. Under MP, individuals adopt the …