How can extremism prevail? A study based on the relative agreement interaction model

JASSS

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1-26

  Deffuant, Guillaume ^a   Amblard, Frédéric ^a   Weisbuch, Gérard ^a   Faure, Thierry ^a  

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Author keywords

Extremists; Individual based Simulation; Opinions Dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141528050     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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