Dual attitude model of opinion diffusion: Experiments with epistemically motivated agents

• Main Authors: PHANG, Riyang, QIU, Lin, LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Need for Cognitive Closure; Opinion Diffusion; Social Psychology; Political Psychology; Cognitive Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3264; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4521/viewcontent/IEEE_BESC_Proceedings__Dual_Attitude_Model_of_Opinion_Diffusion__Revised.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Opinion diffusion is often simulated in agentbased models to reveal the perpetuation of norms and beliefs. This paper presents a dual attitude model where agents’ interaction, information search, and opinion formation are influenced by the need for cognitive closure (NFCC). Two experiments simulated...