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The Undecided Have the Key: Interaction-Driven Opinion Dynamics in a Three State Model.

Pablo Balenzuela¹, Juan Pablo Pinasco², Viktoriya Semeshenko³

¹Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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This study introduces a new opinion formation model where undecided agents are key. A minimum fraction of undecided individuals is crucial for reaching consensus and determining dominant opinions in polarized situations.

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Computational Social Science
Mathematical Physics

Background:

Interpersonal interactions drive social aggregation and collective opinion formation.
Opinion dynamics is a multidisciplinary field studied by sociologists, psychologists, physicists, and mathematicians.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel computational model for opinion formation.
To investigate the role of undecided agents and persuasion dynamics in collective opinion shifts.

Main Methods:

Developed a threshold-based model of opinion formation with agents having strict preferences or being undecided.
Analyzed the influence of the initial fraction of undecided agents and persuasion change per interaction on steady states.
Presented the theoretical framework using master equations to understand opinion dynamics.

Main Results:

The model exhibits diverse steady states, including consensus and bi-polarization.
A minimum fraction of undecided agents is essential for both consensus and establishing a dominant opinion in polarized scenarios.
The interplay between initial undecided fraction and persuasion change dictates the system's emergent states.

Conclusions:

The proposed model offers a nuanced understanding of opinion formation dynamics.
Undecided agents play a critical role in shaping collective opinions, influencing both consensus and polarization.
The model's complexity, particularly the analytical challenges of its master equations, warrants further investigation.