Opinion dynamics have attracted the interest of researchers from different fields. Local
interactions among individuals create interesting dynamics for the system as a whole. Such …

Abstract In 1997, Robert Axelrod wondered in a highly influential paper" If people tend to
become more alike in their beliefs, attitudes, and behavior when they interact, why do not all …

The article describes the current status and potential directions of development of agent-
based models of social opinion dynamics. Despite extensive effort, the models achieve, at …

For decades, scientists have studied opinion formation in social networks, where information
travels via word of mouth. The particularly interesting case is when polar opinions …

The issue of polarization in online social media has been gaining attention in recent years
amid the changing political landscapes of many parts of the world. Several studies …

Many people rely on online social networks as sources of news and information, and the
spread of media content with ideologies across the political spectrum influences online …

Agent-based models of opinion dynamics allow one to examine the spread of opinions
between entities and to study phenomena such as consensus, polarization, and …

In this paper, we investigate a general nonlinear model of opinion dynamics in which both
state-dependent susceptibility to persuasion and antagonistic interactions are considered …

Most sociophysics opinion dynamics simulations assume that contacts between agents lead
to greater similarity of opinions, and that there is a tendency for agents having similar …

We provide an agent‐based model to explain the emergence of collective opinions not
based on feedback between different opinions, but based on emotional interactions …