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physics.soc-ph2017★ 5 cited
Evidence of Herding and Stubbornness in Jury Deliberations
Keith Burghardt, William Rand, Michelle Girvan
We explore how the mechanics of collective decision-making, especially of jury deliberation, can be inferred from macroscopic statistics. We first hypothesize that the dynamics of…
physics.soc-ph2014★ 30 cited
Competing opinions and stubbornness: connecting models to data
Keith A. Burghardt, William Rand, Michelle Girvan
We introduce a general contagion-like model for competing opinions that includes dynamic resistance to alternative opinions. We show that this model can describe candidate vote dis…