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arxiv 1507.07339 v2 pith:P6RPCSRE submitted 2015-07-27 physics.soc-ph math.DS

Balancer effects in opinion dynamics

Taksu Cheon , Jun Morimoto This is my paper
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We introduce a novel type of contrarian agent, the balancer, to Galam model of opinion dynamics, in order to account for the existence of social skepticism over one-sidedness. We find that the inclusion of balancers, along with majoritarian floaters and single-sided inflexibles, brings about the emergence of a critical point on parametric plane of the dynamical system. Around the critical point, three distinct phases of opinion dynamics separated by discontinuous changes are found.

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