Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Benefits of Diversity, Communication Costs, and Public Opinion Dynamics   We study the dynamics of public opinion in a model in which agents change
their opinions as a result of random binary encounters if the opinion
difference is below their individual thresholds that evolve over time. We
ground these thresholds in a simple individual cost-benefit analysis with
linear benefits of diversity and quadratic communication costs. We clarify and
deepen the results of earlier continuous-opinion dynamics models (Deffuant et
al., Adv Complex Systems 2000; Weisbuch et al., Complexity 2002) and establish
several new results regarding the patterns of opinions in the asymptotic state
and the cluster formation time.

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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex