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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 1. Echo Chambers and Random Polarization
Serge Galam
Starting from a symmetrical multiple choice individual I build a sociophysics model of decision making. Reducing the choices to two and interactions to pairs recover the Ising mode…
physics.soc-ph2024
Measuring the Subjective Passage of Time
Serge Galam
I address the question of measuring the subjective perception of the passage of time at the individual level in relation to its objective duration using a physicist-type treatment.…
physics.soc-ph2024
Fake news: No ban, No spread -- with Sequestration
Serge Galam
Fake news is today a major threat to free and democratic making of public opinion. To curb their spread, all efforts by institutions and policy makers rely mainly on imposing restr…