Collective Opinion as Tendency Towards Consensus.

Group beliefs in social networks are often construed as arising from individual beliefs through processes of update and aggregation. In this paper, we explore an alternative 'arational' perspective. More specifically, we focus on group attitudes as neutral tendencies toward alignment of opinions dri...

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Publicado en:Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 593 - 614
Autor principal: Shi, Chenwei
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2021
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Sumario:Group beliefs in social networks are often construed as arising from individual beliefs through processes of update and aggregation. In this paper, we explore an alternative 'arational' perspective. More specifically, we focus on group attitudes as neutral tendencies toward alignment of opinions driven by influence patterns among agents modeled in a Markov dynamics. In addition, we investigate logical patterns in the resulting potential group beliefs or, in more neutral arational terminology: collective opinion structures.