Publications by authors named "Peter A Fetros"

Article Synopsis
  • The study examines how opinions that vary in conviction can create social patterns like clustering, polarization, and deadlock.
  • The authors introduce two new interaction methods—spatial relocation and nonlocal interaction ("telephoning")—to analyze their effects on these social dynamics compared to an earlier fully spatial model.
  • Findings reveal that mixing through telephoning can reduce polarization and deadlock while speeding up consensus, with spatial relocation showing even stronger effects.
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