Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, college students were required to stay at
home and maintain social distance for the entire spring semester of 2020. There is little …

Understanding how individuals change their opinions is essential to mitigating the harmful
effect of fake news and stopping opinion polarization. The current situation in the field of …

The symmetric convex mechanism of opinion formation requires an individual's opinion at
the next time moment to be an average of their current opinion and opinions of their …

The opinion dynamics literature argues that the way people perceive social influence
depends not only on the opinions of interacting individuals, but also on the individuals' non …

Disease surveillance is used to monitor ongoing control activities, detect early outbreaks,
and inform intervention priorities and policies. However, data from disease surveillance that …

Understanding human behavior remains a grand challenge across disciplines. We used eye
tracking to investigate how visual perception is associated with a strategic behavior in the …

Количество иностранных студентов в вузах разных стран, в том числе в российских,
постоянно растет. При этом ряд аспектов образовательной миграции в России …

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model to explore how agents' activity patterns
affect echo chamber formation when their mutual interactions are controlled using a …

Today, for about five online communities promoting aggressive ideology are registered daily
in the largest Russian social network Vkontakte. These youth communities advocate …

Numerous researches have indicated that men's and women's cooperation varied from no
differences to significant differences under the influence of different contextual …