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Simulation of Galam's contrarian opinions

2003/08/19 by D. Stauffer, Stauffer, D., J. S. Sá Martins +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0308381

8 pages sociophysics, including figures

arxiv created 2003/08/19 · openalex publication_date 2003/08/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Galam's model of people voting always against the majority is shown to give for the quenched case different results than the original annealed model. For people diffusing on a lattice, Galam's phase transitions happen only at higher concentrations of people.

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