How social feedback processing in the brain shapes collective opinion processes in the era of social media

no code implementations • 18 Mar 2020 • Sven Banisch, Felix Gaisbauer, Eckehard Olbrich

What are the mechanisms by which groups with certain opinions gain public voice and force others holding a different view into silence?

Facilitating on-line opinion dynamics by mining expressions of causation. The case of climate change debates on The Guardian

no code implementations • 3 Dec 2019 • Tom Willaert, Sven Banisch, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls

News website comment sections are spaces where potentially conflicting opinions and beliefs are voiced.

Opinion Polarization by Learning from Social Feedback

no code implementations • 7 Apr 2017 • Sven Banisch, Eckehard Olbrich

We explore a new mechanism to explain polarization phenomena in opinion dynamics in which agents evaluate alternative views on the basis of the social feedback obtained on expressing them.

The Coconut Model with Heterogeneous Strategies and Learning

no code implementations • 1 Dec 2016 • Sven Banisch, Eckehard Olbrich

In this paper, we develop an agent-based version of the Diamond search equilibrium model - also called Coconut Model.