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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 3: Dynamics of Groups and Organizations II

AKSOE 3.1: Talk

Monday, March 27, 2006, 14:00–14:30, BAR 205

Personal versus economic freedom — •Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron — University of Wroclaw, Institute of Theoretical Physics, pl. M. Borna 9, Poland

Modern societies rely heavily on group decision, but the part of what makes for healthy faith communities is a sense that all members feel heard. That is why finding consensus is very important in many branches of social life - from very personal problems (like religion, abortion, etc.) to economic problems (like marketing, investments, etc.). Recently both sociologists and physicists have tried to find out when a complete consensus from initially diverging opinions emerges. In this talk we propose a model which allows to discriminate between two kinds of behavior, connected with areas which we will call personal and economic. It seems that an attitude with regard to the personal area spreads in a different way than that with regard to the economic area. Thus, we assume that each agent tries to influence its neighbors, but in the personal area the information flows inward from the neighborhood (like in most opinion dynamic models), whereas in the economic area the information flows outward from the agent or group of agents to the neighborhood.