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Mean-field analysis for cognitively-grounded opinion dynamics with confirmation bias
Sven Banisch, Joris Wessels
Understanding how individuals' beliefs and attitudes evolve within a population is crucial for explaining social phenomena such as polarization and consensus formation. We explore…
How opinions get more extreme in an age of information abundance
Guillaume Deffuant, Marijn A. Keijzer, Sven Banisch
We live in an age of information abundance but know little about how this influences our opinions or attitudes. A common expectation is that people consulting numerous pieces of in…
Biased processing and opinion polarization: experimental refinement of argument communication theory in the context of the energy debate
Sven Banisch, Hawal Shamon
In sociological research, the study of macro processes, such as opinion polarization, faces a fundamental problem, the so-called micro-macro problem. To overcome this problem, we c…
Validating argument-based opinion dynamics with survey experiments
Sven Banisch, Hawal Shamon
The empirical validation of models remains one of the most important challenges in opinion dynamics. In this contribution, we report on recent developments on combining data from s…
Order-disorder transition in the zero-temperature Ising model on random graphs
Armin Pournaki, Eckehard Olbrich, Sven Banisch +1
The zero-temperature Ising model is known to reach a fully ordered ground state in sufficiently dense random graphs. In sparse random graphs, the dynamics gets absorbed in disorder…
The rise of populism and the reconfiguration of the German political space
Eckehard Olbrich, Sven Banisch
The paper explores the notion of a reconfiguration of political space in the context of the rise of populism and its effects on the political system. We focus on Germany and the ap…