Opinion dynamics on directed small-world networks
- Jiang, L. -L. Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Hua, D. -Y. Department of Physics, Ningbo University, Ningbo Zhejiang, China
- Zhu, J. -F. Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Wang, Bing-Hong Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Zhou, Tao Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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18.09.2008
Published in:
- The European Physical Journal B. - 2008, vol. 65, no. 2, p. 251-255
English
We investigate the self-affirmation effect on formation of public opinion in a directed small-world social network. The system presents a non-equilibrium phase transition from a consensus state to a disordered state with coexistence of opinions. The dynamical behaviors are very sensitive to the density of long-range-directed interactions and the strength of self-affirmation. When the long-range-directed interactions are sparse and individual generally does not insist on his/her opinion, the system will display a continuous phase transition, in the opposite case with strong self-affirmation and dense long-range-directed interactions, the system does not display a phase transition. Between those two extreme cases, the system undergoes a discontinuous phase transition.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
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- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 12293
- DOI 10.1140/epjb/e2008-00342-3
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301321
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