Collective beliefs versus individual inflexibility: The unavoidable biases of a public debate

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3036-3054

  Galam, Serge ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Collective beliefs; Opinion dynamics; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING;

COLLECTIVE BELIEFS; COMBINED EFFECT; CURRENT VALUES; OPINION DYNAMICS; PAIR INTERACTIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; PUBLIC DEBATE; SOCIOPHYSICS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 79958003319     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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