THE DARK SIDE OF GOSSIPS: HINTS FROM A SIMPLE OPINION DYNAMICS MODEL

Author:

DEFFUANT GUILLAUME1ORCID,BERTAZZI ILARIA1,HUET SYLVIE1

Affiliation:

1. Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory (LISC), National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), 24 Avenue des Landais, BP 20085, F-63172 Aubière, France

Abstract

We consider a simple model of agents modifying their opinion about themselves and about the others during random pair interactions. Two unexpected patterns emerge: (1) without gossips, starting from zero, agents’ opinions tend to grow and stabilize on average at a positive value; (2) when introducing gossips, this pattern is inverted; the opinions tend to decrease and stabilize on average at a negative value. We show that these patterns can be explained by the relative influence of a positive bias on self-opinions and of a negative bias on opinions about others. Without gossips, the positive bias on self-opinions dominates, leading to a positive average opinion. Gossips increase the negative bias about others, which can dominate the positive bias on self-opinions, leading to a negative average opinion.

Funder

Flagera project FuturICT2.0

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Control and Systems Engineering

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