Do Stubborn Users Always Cause More Polarization and Disagreement? A Mathematical Study
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We study how the stubbornness of social network users influences opinion polarization and disagreement. Our work is in the context of the popular Friedkin-Johnson opinion formation model, where users update their opinion as a function of the opinion of their connections and their own innate opinion. Stubbornness then is formulated in terms of the stress a user puts on its innate opinion.
Authors: Mohammad Shirzadi, Ahad N. Zehmakan
Institution: Australian National University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4407953181