Conciliatory and contradictory dynamics in opinion formation

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 5672-5684

  Boudin, Laurent ^a,b   Mercier, Aurore ^a   Salvarani, Francesco ^b,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kinetic model; Opinion dynamics; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

CLOSED GROUPS; EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS RESULTS; KINETIC DESCRIPTION; KINETIC MODELING; OPINION DYNAMICS; OPINION FORMATION; SOCIOPHYSICS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84864491170     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.05.070     Document Type: Article

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