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A Dynamical Model of Growth of Membership to an Opinion


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1 Institute of Frontier Science and Applications, Bengaluru 560 037, India
2 CSIR National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

Many social processes, from elections to terrorism, depend on growth of memberships to opinions. In a generic sense, an opinion is a proposition that for an individual has financial, cultural and emotional impli-cations. The individual responses in turn create a ‘social response’ which influences the individual response resulting in a dynamical system with two-way feed-backs. We consider a set of deterministic dynamical equations that describe individual response to a class of prescribed opinions. The time-dependent opinion dynamics model exhibits nearly complete acceptance to nearly complete rejection with complex evolution, providing the framework for a mechanistic descrip-tion of opinion formation.

Keywords

Dynamic Model, Growth of Membership, Opinion Dynamics, Social Engineering.
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Authors

Prashant Goswami
Institute of Frontier Science and Applications, Bengaluru 560 037, India
Shivnarayan Nishad
CSIR National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, Dr K.S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


Many social processes, from elections to terrorism, depend on growth of memberships to opinions. In a generic sense, an opinion is a proposition that for an individual has financial, cultural and emotional impli-cations. The individual responses in turn create a ‘social response’ which influences the individual response resulting in a dynamical system with two-way feed-backs. We consider a set of deterministic dynamical equations that describe individual response to a class of prescribed opinions. The time-dependent opinion dynamics model exhibits nearly complete acceptance to nearly complete rejection with complex evolution, providing the framework for a mechanistic descrip-tion of opinion formation.

Keywords


Dynamic Model, Growth of Membership, Opinion Dynamics, Social Engineering.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi4%2F577-591