Polarization in the three-state -voter model with anticonformity and bounded confidence
arXiv:2210.16599 · doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112809
Abstract
Engaging with dissenting views, fostering productive disagreements or strategic anticonformity can benefit organizations as it challenges the status quo. The question arises, however, whether such strategic anticonformity ultimately leads to social polarization, which is not a desirable phenomenon. We address this question within an agent-based model of discrete choices. Using the way of modeling social responses in continuous opinion models, we propose a three-state -voter model with anticonformity and bounded confidence. We analyze the model on a complete graph using the mean-field approach and Monte Carlo simulations. We show that strong polarization appears only for a small probability of anticonformity, which means that conformity combined with homophily enhances polarization. Our findings agree with results obtained previously in the group discussion experiment and within various continuous opinion models.
arXiv comment27 pages, 10 figures
References in corpus (12)
- The non-linear q-voter model
- Freezing and Slow Evolution in a Constrained Opinion Dynamics Model
- Disorder induced phase transition in kinetic models of opinion dynamics
- Opinion Polarization by Learning from Social Feedback
- Ultimate Fate of Constrained Voters
- Statistical Physics Of Opinion Formation: is it a SPOOF?
- The undecided have the key: Interaction-driven opinion dynamics in a three state model
- Hipsters on Networks: How a Small Group of Individuals Can Lead to an Anti-Establishment Majority
- Fixation and Polarization in a Three-Species Opinion Dynamics Model
- Bounded Confidence under Preferential Flip: A Coupled Dynamics of Structural Balance and Opinions
- A three-state kinetic agent-based model to analyze tax evasion dynamics
- Switching from a continuous to discontinuous phase transition under the quenched disorder