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SYOF: Symposium Dynamics of Opinion Formation – From Quorum Sensing to Polarization

SYOF 1: Dynamics of Opinion Formation – From Quorum Sensing to Polarization

Monday, March 27, 2023, 09:30–12:15, HSZ 01

Quorum sensing is a widespread biological mechanism through which cells can exchange information and achieve a consensus state – hence a pre-social opinion formation process. In societies, opinion formation is a complex dynamical process that can, depending on the voting system and social interactions, lead to polarized societies or multi-parties systems. This symposium focuses on the dynamical processes underlying this opinion formation, the influence of the underlying topology of the opinion space (binary/Ising, Potts, continuous, higher-dimensional) and the resulting phase transitions.

	09:30	SYOF 1.1	Invited Talk: Towards understanding of the social hysteresis -- insights from statistical physics — •Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
	10:00	SYOF 1.2	Invited Talk: Polarization in attitude distributions from surveys and models of continuous opinion dynamics — •Jan Lorenz and Martin Gestefeld
	10:30	SYOF 1.3	Invited Talk: Collective patterns and stable misunderstandings in networks striving for consensus without a common value system — •Johannes Falk, Edwin Eichler, Katja Windt, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt
	11:00		15 min. break
	11:15	SYOF 1.4	Invited Talk: A yet undetected cognitive bias, revealed by opinion dynamics simulations — •Guillaume Deffuant
	11:45	SYOF 1.5	Invited Talk: Extreme switches in kinetic exchange models of opinion. — •Parongama Sen and Kathakali Biswas