A note on temperature without energy - a social example

Abstract

The concept of magnetic susceptibility in the Ising model is used to identify the social temperature as the rate of random changes of strategy for a set of agents playing two different strategies.

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References in corpus (4)

• Statistical physics of social dynamics
• Social Network Reciprocity as a Phase Transition in Evolutionary Cooperation
• Applications of Physics and Mathematics to Social Science
• Around the gap between sociophysics and sociology

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Heider balance of a chain of actors as dependent on the interaction range and a thermal noise
• Thermal properties of structurally balanced systems on classical random graphs