In the interactions of a social group, people usually update and express their opinions through the observational learning behaviors. The formed directed networks are adaptive which are influenced by the evolution of opinions; while in turn modify the dynamic process of opinions. We extend the...

The Internet is a public environment where people increasingly share information and exchange opinions. Not everyone can afford the costs of using the Internet, causing online opinions to be distorted in favor of certain social groups. This study examines the effect of the digital divide on...

Представлен метод исследования социальных сетей, основанный на использовании языковых игр. С помощью языковых игр можно решать такие задачи как выявление...

Empirical findings in the intergroup conflict literature show that individuals’ beliefs that mark differentiation from out-groups become radicalized as intergroup tensions escalate. They also show that this differentiation is proportional to tension escalation. In this paper, we are...

The main objective of the present paper is to investigate explicitly the role of the state of confidence for the macroeconomic dynamics of two interacting economies using the opinion dy- namics approach by Weidlich and Haag (1983) and Lux (1995). Particularly, the overall state of confidence in...

Представлен метод исследования социальных сетей, основанный на использовании языковых игр. С помощью языковых игр можно решать такие задачи как выявление...