The recent rise of the political extremism in Western countries has spurred renewed interest
in the psychological and moral appeal of political extremism. Empirical support for the …

Influence maximization problem is trying to identify a set of K nodes by which the spread of
influence, diseases or information is maximized. The optimization of influence by finding …

Empirical findings in the intergroup conflict literature show that individuals' beliefs that mark
differentiation from out-groups become radicalized as intergroup tensions escalate. They …

Empirical evidences have supported the large heterogeneity in the timing of individuals'
activities. Moreover, computational analysis of the agent-based models has shown the …

Empirical findings from social psychology show that sometimes people show favoritism
toward in-group members in order to reach a global consensus, even against individuals' …

Data normality is a typical assumption when performing confirmatory factor analysis.
However, always using confirmatory factor analysis under the normally assumption will often …

Twitter data has been widely used by researchers across various social and computer
science disciplines. A common aim when working with Twitter data is the construction of a …

The ever-increasing use of the internet by terrorist groups as a platform for the dissemination
of radical, violent ideologies is well documented. The internet has, in this way, become a …

Organizational and psychological science have historically relied on experimental and
correlational research. Computational modeling and simulation have emerged as a “third” …

The problem of interest in this dissertation is the phenomenon of drifting toward opinion
extremes. The process is called Radicalization and has received a great deal of attention in …