Group beliefs in social networks are often construed as arising from individual beliefs through processes of update and aggregation. In this paper, we explore an alternative ‘arational’ perspective. More specifically, we focus on group attitudes as neutral tendencies toward alignment of opinions driven by influence patterns among agents modeled in a Markov dynamics. In addition, we investigate logical patterns in the resulting potential group beliefs or, in more neutral arational terminology: collective opinion structures.

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集体意见作为趋向共识的趋势

社交网络中的群体信念通常被解释为通过更新和聚合过程产生于个人信念。在本文中，我们探索了另一种“理性”的观点。更具体地说，我们将群体态度作为以马尔可夫动力学建模的代理之间的影响模式驱动的意见一致的中立倾向。此外，我们调查由此产生的潜在群体信念中的逻辑模式，或者更中性的非理性术语：集体意见结构。