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Positive contagion and the macrostructures of generalized balance

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  • Friedkin, Noah E.
  • Proskurnikov, Anton V.
  • Bullo, Francesco

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Balance theory has advanced with interdisciplinary contributions from social science, physical science, engineering, and mathematics. The common focus of attention is social networks in which every individual has either a positive or negative, cognitive or emotional, appraisal of every other individual. The current frontier of work on balance theory is a hunt for a dynamical model that predicts the temporal evolution of any such appraisal network to a particular structure in the complete set of balanced networks allowed by the theory. Finding such a model has proved to be a difficult problem. In this article, we contribute a parsimonious solution of the problem that explicates the conditions under which a network will evolve either to a set of mutually antagonistic cliques or to an asymmetric structure that allows agreement, cooperation, and compromise among cliques.

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  • Friedkin, Noah E. & Proskurnikov, Anton V. & Bullo, Francesco, 2019. "Positive contagion and the macrostructures of generalized balance," Network Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 7(4), pages 445-458, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:netsci:v:7:y:2019:i:4:p:445-458_1
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