Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Bias, Belief and Consensus: Collective opinion formation on fluctuating
  networks   With the advent of online networks, societies are substantially more
connected with individual members able to easily modify and maintain their own
social links. Here, we show that active network maintenance exposes agents to
confirmation bias, the tendency to confirm one's beliefs, and we explore how
this affects collective opinion formation. We introduce a model of binary
opinion dynamics on a complex network with fast, stochastic rewiring and show
that confirmation bias induces a segregation of individuals with different
opinions. We use the dynamics of global opinion to generally categorize opinion
update rules and find that confirmation bias always stabilizes the consensus
state. Finally, we show that the time to reach consensus has a non-monotonic
dependence on the magnitude of the bias, suggesting a novel avenue for
large-scale opinion engineering.

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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex