Weisbuch, Gérard; Deffuant, Guillaume; Amblard, Frederic; … - Santa Fe Institute - 2001
We present a model of opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encoun … ters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold. High thresholds yield convergence of opinions towards … network interactions, threshold heterogeneity, adaptive thresholds and binary strings of opinions. …