Flocking-enhanced social contagion
Demian Levis, Albert Dı́az-Guilera, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Michele Starnini
Abstract
The authors show that a dynamical feedback between information spreading and motility of agents triggers the formation of coherently moving structures, or swarms, which in turn are responsible for enhancing social contagion across the population.
Topics & Concepts
Flocking (texture)Swarm behaviourEmotional contagionPopulationMicroeconomicsComputer scienceEconomicsNeurosciencePhysicsPsychologySociologyArtificial intelligenceQuantum mechanicsDemographyOpinion Dynamics and Social InfluenceEvolutionary Game Theory and CooperationComplex Network Analysis Techniques