The effects of social feedback on private opinions. Empirical evidence from the laboratory.

ABSTRACT: The question of how people change their opinions through social interactions has been on the agenda of social scientific research for many decades. Now that the Internet has led to an ever greater interconnectedness and new forms of exchange that seem to go hand in hand with increasing political polarization, it is once again gaining in relevance. Most recently, the field of opinion dynamics has been complemented by social feedback theory, which explains opinion polarization phenomena by means of a reinforcement learning mechanism. According to the assumptions, individuals not only evaluate the opinion alternatives available to them based on the social feedback received as a result of expressing an opinion within a certain social environment. Rather, they also internalize the expected and

SUBMITTER: Sarkozi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534395 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature