Balancer effects in opinion dynamics
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⚛️ physics.soc-ph
math.DS
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dynamicsopinionbalancercriticalpointaccountagentalong
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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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