Bias in social interactions and emergence of extremism in complex social networks

• Main Authors: Nguyen, Vu X., Xiao, Gaoxi, Zhou, Jie, Li, Guoqi, Li, Beibei
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Social Science; Complex Systems Theory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144710
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Emergence of extremism in social networks is among the most appealing topics of opinion dynamics in computational sociophysics in recent decades. Most of the existing studies presume that the initial existence of certain groups of opinion extremities and the intrinsic stubbornness in individuals...