ABSTRACT
Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Omar Lizardo, Casey Doyle, Panagiotis D. Karampourniotis, Pramesh Singh, Gyorgy Korniss, and Jonathan Z. Bakdash
ABSTRACT We demonstrate the role of sociocultural factors in opinion dynamics via modeling dynamic social networks using the naming game and threshold models and via analysis of behavioral network data on social interactions collected at the University of Notre Dame. Our analysis shows that the ties among people likely to share opinions tend to persist longer than ties among persons unlikely to share them. Moreover, the partner selection for a tie is correlated with sharing an (political) opinion. Results show that sociocultural factors and social network dynamics together inuence the evolution of opinions in multicultural social networks and may have implications for megacities.
