Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

A fundamental aspect of society is the exchange and discussion of opinions between
individuals, occurring in situations as varied as company boardrooms, elementary school …

Echo chambers and opinion polarization recently quantified in several sociopolitical
contexts and across different social media raise concerns on their potential impact on the …

Accurately simulating human opinion dynamics is crucial for understanding a variety of
societal phenomena, including polarization and the spread of misinformation. However, the …

Filter bubbles and echo chambers have both been linked recently by commentators to rapid
societal changes such as Brexit and the polarization of the US American society in the …

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a dramatic loss of lives worldwide, challenging the
sustainability of our health care systems, threatening economic meltdown, and putting …

Extreme polarization can undermine democracy by making compromise impossible and
transforming politics into a zero-sum game.“Ideological polarization”—the extent to which …

While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they
also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and …

Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the
social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities …

How one builds, checks, validates and interprets a model depends on its 'purpose'. This is
true even if the same model is used for different purposes, which means that a model built …