The functional aspects of selective exposure for collective decision-making under social influence

• Main Authors: Oh, Poong, Peh, Jia Wang, Schauf, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Consensus; Emotion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174699
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Opinion diversity is crucial for collective decision-making, but maintaining it becomes challenging in the face of social influence. We propose selective exposure as an endogenous mechanism that preserves opinion diversity by forming exclusive subgroups of like-minded individuals, or echo chambers,...