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Bounded confidence model with fixed uncertainties and extremists: The opinions can keep fluctuating indefinitely

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The bounded confidence model and its variants applied to moderate and extremist agents exhibit three types of attractors: central clusters, double extreme and single extreme clusters. These attractors are observed when the models include a dynamics on the uncertainties tending to decrease the moderate uncertainties when interacting with extremists. We show here that a new stationary state appears when the uncertainties are fixed, for large uncertainties of the moderates. In this stationary state, the opinions of moderate agents keep fluctuating without clustering, altogether forming a stable density which shape changes significantly when the parameters vary.

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hal-02602523 , version 1 (16-05-2020)

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Jean-Denis Mathias, Sylvie Huet, Guillaume Deffuant. Bounded confidence model with fixed uncertainties and extremists: The opinions can keep fluctuating indefinitely. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2016, 19 (1), pp.15. ⟨10.18564/jasss.2967⟩. ⟨hal-02602523⟩
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