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The dynamics of peer pressure. (English) Zbl 1349.91104

van Ditmarsch, Hans (ed.) et al., Logic, rationality, and interaction. Third international workshop, LORI 2011, Guangzhou, China, October 10–13, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-24129-1/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6953. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 390-391 (2011).
Summary: Following the general programme of [J. Seligman et al., Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 6521, 178–188 (2010; Zbl 1303.03043)], we investigate the effect of social relationships on the dynamics of preference change within a community. Specifically, we are interested in the phenomenon of ‘peer pressure’, according to which a person’s preferences are changed in response to the preferences of a ‘peer group’. This involves both aggregation of preferences, to determine the group’s preferences and preference change. We propose a simple model of peer pressure which is still sufficiently non-trivial to display some interesting dynamics, and show how the stable configurations can be expressed logically.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1223.68013].

MSC:

91B10 Group preferences
03B42 Logics of knowledge and belief (including belief change)
91D30 Social networks; opinion dynamics

Citations:

Zbl 1303.03043
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[1] Liang, Z., Seligman, J.: The dynamics of peer pressure (2011), http://auckland.academia.edu/JeremySeligman/Papers/672669/ · Zbl 1347.68319
[2] Seligman, J., Liu, F., Girard, P.: Logic in the community. In: Banerjee, M., Seth, A. (eds.) Logic and Its Applications. LNCS, vol. 6521, pp. 178–188. Springer, Heidelberg (2011) · Zbl 1303.03043 · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18026-2_15
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