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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages 851-857Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10299-3
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We introduce stochastic driving in the Sznajd model of opinion spreading. This stochastic effect is meant to mimic a social temperature, so that agents can take random decisions with a varying probability. We show that a stochastic driving has a tremendous impact on the system dynamics as a whole by inducing an order-disorder nonequilibrium phase transition. Interestingly, under certain conditions, this stochastic dynamics can spontaneously lead to agents in the system who are analogous to Galam's contarians.
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