Competing Opinions and Stubborness: Connecting Models to Data

We introduce a general contagionlike model for competing opinions that includes dynamic resistance to alternative opinions. We show that this model can describe candidate vote distributions, spatial vote correlations, and a slow approach to opinion consensus with sensible parameter values. These empirical properties of large group dynamics, previously understood using distinct models, may be different aspects of human behavior that can be captured by a more unified model, such as the one introduced in this paper.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Physical Review E

• Publication date

  2014-11-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032305arXiv 1411.7415PMID 27078364
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