6 papers
Competition between private and expressed opinions in binary choice: the -EPO -voter model
Barbara KamiÅska, Barbara Nowak, Arkadiusz Lipiecki +1
People often express opinions that differ from their privately held views, a phenomenon known in economy as preference falsification. Expressed-private opinion (EPO) models capture…
When heterogeneity drives hysteresis: Anticonformity in the multistate -voter model on networks
Arkadiusz Lipiecki, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
Discontinuous phase transitions are closely linked to tipping points, critical mass effects, and hysteresis, phenomena that have been confirmed empirically and recognized as highly…
Decision-Making under Negativity Bias: Double Hysteresis in the Opinion-Dependent -Voter Model
Maciej Doniec, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron, Federico Vazquez
Negative information often exerts a disproportionately strong impact on human decision-making, a phenomenon known as the negativity bias. In behavioral economics, this effect is fo…
Pair Approximation Meets Reality: Diffusion of Innovation in Organizational Networks within the biased-independence q-Voter Model
Angelika Abramiuk-Szurlej, Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
Collective adaptation, whether in innovation adoption, pro-environmental or organizational change, emerges from the interplay between individual decisions and social influence. Age…
Modeling biases in binary decision-making within the generalized nonlinear q-voter model
Maciej Doniec, Pratik Mullick, Parongama Sen +1
Collective decision-making is a process by which a group of individuals determines a shared outcome that shapes societal dynamics; from innovation diffusion to organizational choic…
Impact of Cognitive Dissonance on Social Hysteresis: Insights fromthe Expressed and Private Opinions Model
KamiÅska Barbara, Sznajd-Weron Katarzyna
The growing interest in models of opinion dynamics, particularly those that distinguish between private beliefs and publicly expressed opinions, spans several academic disciplines,…