Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Mass media and heterogeneous bounds of confidence in continuous opinion
  dynamics   This work focus on the effects of an external mass media on continuous
opinion dynamics with heterogeneous bounds of confidence. We modified the
original Deffuant et al. and Hegselmann and Krause models to incorporate both,
an external mass media and a heterogeneous distribution of confidence levels.
We analysed two cases, one where only two bounds of confidence are taken into
account, and other were each individual of the system has her/his own
characteristic level of confidence. We found that, in the absence of mass
media, diversity of bounds of confidence can improve the capacity of the
systems to reach consensus. We show that the persuasion capacity of the
external message is optimal for intermediate levels of heterogeneity. Our
simulations also show the existence, for certain parameter values, of a
counter-intuitive effect in which the persuasion capacity of the mass media
decreases if the mass media intensity is too large. We discuss similarities and
differences between the two heterogeneous versions of these continuous opinion
dynamic models under the influence of mass media.

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