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- Title
Towards understanding what contributes to forming an opinion.
- Authors
Wang, Peng; Song, Jia; Huo, Jie; Hao, Rui; Wang, Xu-Ming
- Abstract
Opinion evolution mechanism can be captured by physical modeling. In this paper, a kinetic equation is established by defining a generalized displacement(cognitive level), a driving force and the related factors such as generalized potential, information quantity and attitude. It has been shown that the details of opinion evolution depend on the type of the driving force, self-dominated driving or environment-dominated driving. In the former case, the participants can have their attitudes changed in the process of competition between the self-driving force and environment-driving force. In the latter case, all of the participants are pulled by the environment. Some regularities behind the dynamics of opinion are also revealed, for instance, the information entropy decays with time in a special way, etc. The results may help us to get some deep understanding for the formation of a public opinion.
- Subjects
OPINION (Philosophy); COGNITIVE Levels Test; INFORMATION theory; SELF-perception testing; REGULAR functions (Mathematics)
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics C: Computational Physics & Physical Computation, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 11, p-1
- ISSN
0129-1831
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0129183117501352