Unanimous opinions in social influence networks

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In this paper, I show that persons reach unanimous opinions even when they have different initial opinions and different social influences in social influence networks. Friedkin and Johnsen introduced a model of social influence networks, and identified conditions for initially diverse opinions to converge. However, they did not examine conditions of “unanimous” convergence. Hence, I provide sufficient conditions of such unanimous consensus by focusing on three typical but conflicting social influences: the equal influence, the influence of the lowest opinion, and no influence. I show that unanimous opinions occur even when persons have antagonistic social influences such as the equal influence and the influence of the lowest opinion. I also demonstrate that the most cooperative type is the equal influence, but the most central type is the no influence.

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