Mobility and Social Network Effects on Extremist Opinions
| dc.creator | Martins, André C. R. | |
| dc.date | 2008-01-16 | |
| dc.date | 2008-08-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:08:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:08:20Z | |
| dc.description | Understanding the emergence of extreme opinions and in what kind of environment they might become less extreme is a central theme in our modern globalized society. A model combining continuous opinions and observed discrete actions (CODA) capable of addressing the important issue of measuring how extreme opinions might be has been recently proposed. In this paper I show extreme opinions to arise in a ubiquitous manner in the CODA model for a multitude of social network structures. Depending on network details reducing extremism seems to be possible. However, a large number agents with extreme opinions is always observed. A significant decrease in the number of extremists can be observed by allowing agents to change their positions in the network. | |
| dc.description | 7 pages, 8 figures, discussion expanded, new references, new figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2411 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2411 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. E 78, 036104 (2008) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036104 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/170958 | |
| dc.subject | Physics and Society | |
| dc.title | Mobility and Social Network Effects on Extremist Opinions | |
| dc.type | text |