The undecided have the key: Interaction-driven opinion dynamics in a three state model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Balenzuela, Pablo ^a   Pinasco, Juan Pablo ^a   Semeshenko, Viktoriya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UBA CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION; STEADY STATE; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; PEER PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER INFLUENCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84947294804     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139572     Document Type: Article

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