Mobility and Social Network Effects on Extremist Opinions

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2008-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2411v2

Phys. Rev. E 78, 036104 (2008)

Physics

Physics and Society

7 pages, 8 figures, discussion expanded, new references, new figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036104

Understanding the emergence of extreme opinions and in what kind of environment they might become less extreme is a central theme in our modern globalized society. A model combining continuous opinions and observed discrete actions (CODA) capable of addressing the important issue of measuring how extreme opinions might be has been recently proposed. In this paper I show extreme opinions to arise in a ubiquitous manner in the CODA model for a multitude of social network structures. Depending on network details reducing extremism seems to be possible. However, a large number agents with extreme opinions is always observed. A significant decrease in the number of extremists can be observed by allowing agents to change their positions in the network.

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