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Unanimity, Coexistence and Rigidity: Three Sides of Polarization
Serge Galam
Political polarization is perceived as a threat to democracies. Using the Galam model of opinion dynamics deployed in a five-dimensional parameter space, I show that polarization i…
Identifying a would-be terrorist: An ineradicable error in the data processing?
Serge Galam
Processing fragments of data collected on a monitored person to find out whether this person is a would-be terrorist (WT) is very challenging. Moreover, the process has proven to b…
Sociophysics: a new approach of sociological collective behaviour. I. Mean-behaviour description of a strike
Serge Galam, Yuval Gefen, Yonathan Shapir
A new approach to the understanding of sociological collective behaviour, based on the framework of critical phenomena in physics, is presented. The first step consists of construc…
Opinion Dynamics and Unifying Principles: A Global Unifying Frame
Serge Galam
I review and extend the set of unifying principles, which allow comparing all models of opinion dynamics within one single frame. Within the Global Unifying Frame (GUF), any specif…
Physicists, Non Physical Topics, and Interdisciplinarity
Serge Galam
Defining interdisciplinary physics today requires first a reformulation of what is physics today, which in turn calls for clarifying what makes a physicist. This assessment results…
After 2018 Bolsonaro victory, is a 2022 remake feasible?
Nuno Crokidakis, Serge Galam
We propose a contagion model to describe the evolution of the political voting trends in Brazil after the dictatorship from 1985 to nowadays. We consider a fully-connected populati…