How information influences an individual opinion evolution

Deng, Lei; Liu, Yun; Zeng, Qing-An

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2012.07.037

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“…Individual usually has three decisions about online public opinions: agreement, neutral, and opposition [22]. The eWOM also has three forms: good, medium and bad reviews.…”

Section: Ras Model and Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining the Influence of Membership Levels on Consumers’ Decision-making

Chen

2015

Procedia Computer Science

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With the rapid development of e-commerce, online reviews have become one of the factors that affect the consumer purchasing decision. This paper proposes to use integrated Receipt-Accept-Sample(RAS) model and membership level to analyze how online reviews affect consumers' purchasing attitude. The result shows that consumers with different membership levels often have different attitudes towards online reviews. Consumers with higher membership levels normally have a greater probability to receive online review information, but a lower probability to accept it. InstructionT he electronic W ord-of-M outh (eW O M ) has also become a new advertising channel to products [1]. C onsumers share their shopping experiences through eW O M , which is spread rapidly to internet users [2-3]. T he effective communication device also gives a c onvenient way to consumers to get information [4]. T he research has shown that 70% of consumers indicate that they trust online product reviews, which is ahead of advic e from friends or family members, in a traditional channel [5] and 91% of customers will mention the good information before purchasing the product. T here are also more than 46% of customers are influenced by the comments [6]. T hese results show the eW O M is playing a s ignific ant role in the consumers buying decis ions [7].S o eW O M how to influence the consumers choice, which has arous ed great attention [8].T here are many factors of eW O M that affect the individual decisions, such as the information adoption, information useless, purchasing intention, and eW O M sidedness [9][10][11]. W hile eW O M credibility is important, the decision-making model is also an important aspect.

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“…Individual usually has three decisions about online public opinions: agreement, neutral, and opposition [22]. The eWOM also has three forms: good, medium and bad reviews.…”

Section: Ras Model and Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second one is to receive the message, but does not accept it. The third is ignore the message, or neutral [22]. When consumers are planning to buy a product, they often refer to the product's online reviews first [6].…”

Section: Ras Model and Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Influence of Membership Levels on Consumers’ Decision-making

Chen

2015

Procedia Computer Science

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“…Various types of opinion dynamics models in the social¯eld 3,4 have been proposed on how individualopinion is changed by the interaction with others under the in°uence of the news media and other information. [5][6][7][8][9][10] Many of these approaches are the so-called agent-based model whose focuses are to discuss the microscopic feature of the opinion of individual people. [11][12][13] The opinion is in general the subjective cognition or the view of value to a certain matter, whereas the concern or the interest in the matter is clearly di®erent from the opinion.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Interest Immersed in the Field of Information Environment: How has Japanese Interest in Energy and Environmental Problems Varied?

Ohnishi

Shimano

2018

Rep. Adv. Phys. Sci.

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We studied the relevance of the secular variation of Japanese interest in energy and environmental problems to the information primarily released by the news media. From the investigation of the extent of public interest in three matters, the global warming, the energy saving and nature, all indicated by opinion surveys, the number of newspaper articles and the frequency of Internet retrieval search, we proposed a model such that the public interest along with the acquired public knowledge were given as a function of public memory of the information primarily provided by the news media. The society was assumed here to be immersed in a virtual field of information environment, which induced the collective interest of the public and was proportional in strength to the extent of the public memory with oblivion. Introducing two types of oblivion function, we found the model to well reproduce the real time-variation of the Japanese interest, except for the case of nature, almost irrespective to the form of the function. Some comments were made on the attenuation of the public interest that occurred when the field became weakened.

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“…In that model, the convergence time relies heavily on the memory length. Other personal factors, such as contrarians [21] and individual awareness [22] have already been studied, and their influence on the final opinion distribution has proven to be notable. In actual social networks, the interaction among agents is not always symmetrical.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Competition of Dynamic Self-Confidence and Inhomogeneous Individual Influence in Voter Models

Xiong

Liu

Zhu

2013

Entropy

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Abstract:In social systems, agents often have different ability to persuade neighbors to adopt their opinions. In this paper, we aim to investigate how the location and heterogeneity of influencers in social networks can improve convergence. We propose a voter model with dynamic self-conviction and heterogeneous individual influence which is related to the underlying network topology. An agent may keep its current opinion according to personal conviction, or otherwise, it may preferentially choose the opinion of the neighbor that has a great influence. Individual conviction evolves during the dynamic process, and can be strengthened by social recognition. Simulations indicate our model has three nontrivial results. First, the conservation of average magnetization in the voter model is broken under the effect of individual conviction and influence, and the system evolves to an ordered state in which one opinion is dominant, but total consensus is prevented by extremists. Furthermore, individual influence has a subtle action on opinion evolution. The heterogeneity of individual influence accelerates the relaxation process, but, with the action of dynamic conviction, more heterogeneous influence does not mean the average magnetization will be more ordered. In addition, when competing with agents' conviction, more heterogeneous individual influence plays a more significant role in agents' decisions. These results are helpful for understanding some aspects of collective phenomena that occur on online social media. OPEN ACCESSEntropy 2013, 15 5293

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How information influences an individual opinion evolution

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Examining the Influence of Membership Levels on Consumers’ Decision-making

Examining the Influence of Membership Levels on Consumers’ Decision-making

Public Interest Immersed in the Field of Information Environment: How has Japanese Interest in Energy and Environmental Problems Varied?

Competition of Dynamic Self-Confidence and Inhomogeneous Individual Influence in Voter Models

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