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overstate their opinion. We model opinion formation as a dynamic process and identify conditions for convergence to consensus …. Studying the consensus in detail, we show that an agent's social in uence on the consensus opinion is increasing in network … consensus as an estimator for the true state of the world. We show that a society is \wise, i.e. the mean squared error is …
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We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an...
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We investigate the role of manipulation in a model of opinion formation. Agents repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common issue by taking weighted averages of neighbors'...
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convergence to a consensus. Studying the consensus in detail, we show that an agent's social influence on the consensus opinion is …
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