Physicists of the Mind: New Framework Predicts When Public Opinion Snaps Into Consensus or Chaos
A new agent-based framework derives an empirical criterion that predicts with high accuracy whether public discussions will converge, polarise, or ...
Tag: computational social science
Who Falls for Fake News? Hungarian Study Points to Online Communities, Not Age Alone
A study linking survey responses with donated Facebook trace data from a representative sample of Hungarian internet users finds that ...
Neural ODEs and Graph Attention Team Up to Predict How Opinions Spread Online
A new model called GA-ODE combines graph attention networks with ordinary differential equation constraints to predict opinion evolution on social ...
AI Agents Left Alone Spontaneously Split Into Polarized Camps, Study Finds
Simulations of thousands of large language model agents across five backbone models show that AI societies spontaneously form homophilous clusters ...
Why We Split: Simple Cognitive Rules Drive Opinion Polarization in New Model
A new agent-based model shows that the human drives for local distinctiveness and global cognitive simplicity are enough to produce ...
Open-Source Platform Atenea Turns Telegram Into a Searchable Research Archive
Researchers have unveiled Atenea, an open-source platform that continuously archives public Telegram channels, enriches messages with NLP, and enables semantic ...
Too Much Moral Talk Backfires: Study Finds Engagement Peaks at Moderate Moral Language
A study of over 1.6 million posts across Twitter, Reddit and 8chan shows that moral language boosts social media engagement ...
Mobile Location Data Carries Hidden Biases, Multiscale US Analysis Reveals
A new multiscale analysis of the United States quantifies how mobile location data systematically over-represents and under-represents populations across geography, ...
New Map Reveals Where AI Research in Government Is Surging and Where It Falls Short
A large-scale computational review of 3,268 works maps the rapidly shifting landscape of AI research in the public sector and ...
AI Voices in the Crowd: Separating Social Influence from Built-In Bias in Language Model Opinion Dynamics
New research in Nature Communications provides a controlled framework for separating genuine opinion dynamics between AI agents from the shared ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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