Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday May 30, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ Social influence and collective opinion dynamics Mehdi Moussaid <http://www.mehdimoussaid.com/> (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) Abstract: With the ongoing growth of communication technologies, people are every day exposed to a continuous flow of opinions of others about political ideas, new technologies, or commercial products. When individuals face other people’s opinions on a given issue, they often integrate this social information and adjust their own beliefs accordingly. At the scale of a group, repeated influences among group members may give rise to complex patterns of opinion dynamics such as consensus formation, polarization, or fragmentation. Yet, the way people revise their judgement when exposed to the opinion of others, and the mechanisms underlying collective opinion formation remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will present the results of controlled experiments designed to evaluate processes of social influence, scaling up from individual behaviours to group dynamics. I will show how these experimental results can serve to the elaboration of a model of opinion change, and make predictions at the scale of the society. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *June 6* Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *Theories and Practice in an Emerging Physical/Virtual Environment for Social Innovation and Education for Life* *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) *A World of Views: society and social governance on the brink of the Singularity * See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>. You can add this calendar to your calendar application throughhere<https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
