ArticleScientific reports2021
Balance and fragmentation in societies with homophily and social balance.
Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Coexistence of balance and hierarchies: An ego perspective to explain empirical networks.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Co-evolution of groups and opinions in an agent-based model.PloS one · 2025Article
- Proper network randomization is key to assessing social balance.Science advances · 2024Article
- Multidimensional attributes expose Heider balance dynamics to measurements.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A general framework to link theory and empirics in opinion formation models.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Empirical social triad statistics can be explained with dyadic homophylic interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation on the basis of spin models include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily-the tendency for people with similar opinions to establish positive relations-and social balance-the tendency for people to establish balanced triadic relations. Spins represent attribute vectors that encode G different opinions of individuals whose social interactions can be positive or negative. Here we present a co-evolutionary Hamiltonian model of societies where people minimise their individual social stresses. We show that societies always reach stationary, balanced, and fragmented states, if-in addition to homophily-individuals take into account a significant fraction, q, of their triadic relations. Above a critical value, [Formula: see text], balanced and fragmented states exist for any number of opinions.
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