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physics.soc-ph2018
Paths to Polarization: How Extreme Views, Miscommunication, and Random Chance Drive Opinion Dynamics
Matthew A. Turner, Paul E. Smaldino
Understanding the social conditions that tend to increase or decrease polarization is important for many reasons. We study a network-structured agent-based model of opinion dynamic…
physics.soc-ph2018
Cultural Evolution of Categorization
Pablo Andres Contreras Kallens, Rick Dale, Paul E. Smaldino
Categorization is a fundamental function of minds, with wide ranging implications for the rest of the cognitive system. In humans, categories are shared and communicated between mi…
cs.RO2015★ 1 cited
Does Learning Imply a Decrease in the Entropy of Behavior?
Paul E. Smaldino
Shannon's information entropy measures of the uncertainty of an event's outcome. If learning about a system reflects a decrease in uncertainty, then a plausible intuition is that l…