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Enhanced ability of information gathering may intensify disagreement among groups

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Sayama,  Hiroki
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Sayama, H. (2020). Enhanced ability of information gathering may intensify disagreement among groups. Physical Review E, 102(1): 012303. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.012303.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-449D-C
Abstract
Today's society faces widening disagreement and conflicts among constituents with incompatible views. Escalated views and opinions are seen not only in radical ideology or extremism but also in many other scenes of our everyday life. Here we show that widening disagreement among groups may be linked to the advancement of information communication technology by analyzing a mathematical model of population dynamics in a continuous opinion space. We adopted the interaction kernel approach to model enhancement of people's information-gathering ability and introduced a generalized nonlocal gradient as individuals' perception kernel. We found that the characteristic distance between population peaks becomes greater as the wider range of opinions becomes available to individuals or the more attention is attracted to opinions distant from theirs. These findings may provide a possible explanation for why disagreement is growing in today's increasingly interconnected society, without attributing its cause only to specific individuals or events.