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- 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.
Article Abstract
Spatially situated opinions that can be held with different degrees of conviction lead to spatiotemporal patterns such as clustering (homophily), polarization, and deadlock. Our goal is to understand how sensitive these patterns are to changes in the local nature of interactions. We introduce two different mixing mechanisms, spatial relocation and nonlocal interaction ("telephoning"), to an earlier fully spatial model (no mixing). Interestingly, the mechanisms that create deadlock in the fully spatial model have the opposite effect when there is a sufficient amount of mixing. With telephoning, not only is polarization and deadlock broken up, but consensus is hastened. The effects of mixing by relocation are even more pronounced. Further insight into these dynamics is obtained for selected parameter regimes via comparison to the mean-field differential equations.
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