Opinion Polarization in Human Communities Can Emerge as a Natural Consequence of Beliefs Being Interrelated.

ABSTRACT: The emergence of opinion polarization within human communities-the phenomenon that individuals within a society tend to develop conflicting attitudes related to the greatest diversity of topics-has been a focus of interest for decades, both from theoretical and modelling points of view. Regarding modelling attempts, an entire scientific field-opinion dynamics-has emerged in order to study this and related phenomena. Within this framework, agents' opinions are usually represented by a scalar value which undergoes modification due to interaction with other agents. Under certain conditions, these models are able to reproduce polarization-a state increasingly familiar to our everyday experience. In the present paper, an alternative explanation is suggested along with its corresponding model. M

SUBMITTER: Zafeiris A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature