Abstract:In a previous paper, the evolution of certainty measured during a consensus-based smallgroup decision process was shown to oscillate to an equilibrium value for about twothirds of the participants in the experiment. Starting from the observation that experimental participants are split into two groups, those for whom the evolution of certainty oscillates and those for whom it does not, in this paper we perform an analysis of this bifurcation with a more accurate model and answer two main questions: what is the… Show more
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