Online users tend to select claims that adhere to their system of beliefs and to ignore
dissenting information. Confirmation bias, indeed, plays a pivotal role in viral phenomena …

Rumor spreading has a profound influence on people's well-being and social stability. There
are many factors influencing rumor spreading. In this paper, we recommended an …

Participants in discussions on online social networks tend to become polarized into clusters
of users with diametrically opposite opinions. Recent evidence has suggested that social …

In this paper, an I2S2R rumor spreading model in complex networks is established and
analyzed. Firstly, the threshold value is acquired to identify the existence and stability of …

This paper analyses the impact of competing opinion leaders on attracting followers in a
social group based on a bounded confidence model in terms of four characteristics …

Polarization of opinions is a societal threat. It involves psychological processes as well as
group dynamics, a popular topic in statistical physics. However, the interaction between the …

In social and biological systems, the structural heterogeneity of interaction networks gives
rise to the emergence of a small set of influential nodes, or influencers, in a series of …

Distributed social learning may occur at many temporal and spatial scales, but it rarely adds
up to a stable culture. Cultures vary in stability and diversity (polymorphism), ranging from …

In many social and biological networks, the collective dynamics of the entire system can be
shaped by a small set of influential units through a global cascading process, manifested by …

This paper develops an active sensing method to estimate the relative weight (or trust)
agents place on their neighbors' information in a social network. The model used for the …