Galam, Serge - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 333 (2004) C, pp. 453-460
We study the effects of contrarians on the dynamics of opinion forming using the 2-state Galam opinion dynamics model. In a single update step, groups of a given size are defined and all agents in each group adopt the state of the local majority. In the absence of contrarians, the dynamics is...