论文标题
在相互依存的主题中建模爆炸性意见去极化
Modeling Explosive Opinion Depolarization in Interdependent Topics
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论文摘要
了解去极化的观点动态对于减少我们社会的政治鸿沟至关重要。我们提出了一个意见动力学模型，我们将其命名为社会指南针模型，是针对极地空间中代表的相互依存的主题，在该主题中，狂热者持有极端见解的狂热者不太容易改变他们的主意。我们在分析上表明，如果主题不相关，则从极化到共识的相变为社会影响力的函数，这是爆炸性的。我们通过广泛的数值模拟来验证我们的理论框架，并通过使用美国国家选举研究（包括两极分化和相互依存的话题）的初始意见来恢复爆炸性去极化。
Understanding the dynamics of opinion depolarization is pivotal to reducing the political divide in our society. We propose an opinion dynamics model, which we name the social compass model, for interdependent topics represented in a polar space, where zealots holding extreme opinions are less prone to change their minds. We analytically show that the phase transition from polarization to consensus, as a function of increasing social influence, is explosive if topics are not correlated. We validate our theoretical framework through extensive numerical simulations and recover explosive depolarization also by using initial opinions from the American National Election Studies, including polarized and interdependent topics.
