Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities

J Xie, S Sreenivasan, G Korniss, W Zhang, C Lim… - Physical Review E, 2011 - APS
committed agents. The question that we specifically ask is, how does the consensus time
vary with the size of the committed … which an inflexible set of minority opinion holders can win …

[PDF][PDF] On influence of committed minorities on social consensus

BK Szymanski, S Sreenivasan, J Xie, W Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - cs.rpi.edu
… We also discuss conditions under which the committed minority can rapidly reverse the …
committed to their opinion. The results are relevant in understanding and influencing the social

[HTML][HTML] Role of committed minorities in times of crisis

M Turalska, BJ West, P Grigolini - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
… there is an ambiguity concerning a given social issue. The correlation function within the …
for very small but committed minorities to produce substantial changes in social consensus. …

Estimates of social consensus by majorities and minorities: The case for social projection

J Krueger, RW Clement - Personality and Social Psychology …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
consensus estimation have identified an asymmetry in the error patterns between majorities
and minorities … group, whereas members of the minority strongly overestimate the size of …

Levels of consensus and majority and minority influence

R Martin, A Gardikiotis… - … Journal of Social …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
consensus information on majority and minority influence. In all experiments two levels of
consensus … more influence than a minority source, irrespective of consensus level. Experiment …

[引用][C] On the Influence of Committed Minorities on Social Consensus

J Emenheiser, M Kirby, C Lim, G Korniss

The social impact of majorities and minorities.

B Latané, S Wolf - Psychological Review, 1981 - psycnet.apa.org
Consensus is a property of the group as an entity, and once it is broken, additional minority
… size may be inversely related to attributions of confidence and commitment that, as signs of …

The moral minorities: a self-report study of low-consensus deviance

RW Winslow, PT Gay - International journal of offender …, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
… As shown in Table 4, we found a negative correlation between minority group
membership and selfreported propensity to commit various acts of “low-consensus deviance.” …

Group consensus in social influence: Type of consensus information as a moderator of majority and minority influence

A Gardikiotis, R Martin… - Personality and Social …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
… bis legalized” and “a tiny minority with too much cultural clout”). … of consensus adjectives on
majority and minority influence. … will infer that the source is committed, confident, and sure of …

Large minorities and small majorities: Interactive effects of inferred and explicit consensus on attitudes

HP Erb, G Bohner, M Hewstone, L Werth… - … and Applied Social …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Two studies demonstrate that minority and majority source information implies consensus, …
eg, 20% for a "minority"). Such consensus inferred from minority/majority source information is …