Modeling confirmation bias and polarization

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Del Vicario, Michela ^a   Scala, Antonio ^a,b   Caldarelli, Guido ^a   Stanley, H Eugene ^c   Quattrociocchi, Walter ^a  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b ISC CNR   (Italy)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIRMATION BIAS; HUMAN; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POLARIZATION; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85009223517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40391     Document Type: Article

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