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| Research Progress of Opinion Polarization in Social Collective Behavior: Centered on Biased Assimilation and the Hostile Media Effects |
| XIAO Renbin, ZHANG Xuanyu
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1. School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
2. Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China |
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Abstract As a type of collective behavior in social systems, opinion polarization may greatly influence social stability. Thus, this paper systematically sorts out and summarizes the research status of opinion polarization. Based on reviews of the concept and modeling of opinion polarization in social and political fields, the two interaction mechanisms of opinions that lead to opinion polarization are extracted. From the perspective of individuals, the paper focuses on discussion two kinds of social psychological effects that may lead to opinion polarization, viz., biased assimilation and hostile media effect. The key to integration of polarization research in different fields lies in the internal change mechanism of individual opinion. One of the emphasis in future research should focus on the mutual corroboration of models and real data.
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Received: 13 November 2022
Published: 28 December 2023
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