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A Cognitive-Consistency Based Model of Population Wide Attitude Change

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Attitudes are an important component in human decision making. We focus on developing a model of attitude diffusion across people that includes social and cognitive factors. We will describe the model and the underlying theories that support its elements. Our results focus on better understanding the resiliency of attitudes—how long does it take for attitudes to change and what do they change to?

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    Defined as a maximum of .01 difference between concept valences between iterations.

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    See: http://climatedebatedaily.com/ for a large set of articles both for and against anthropogenic global warming.

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    Kiran Lakkaraju

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Lakkaraju, K., Speed, A. (2019). A Cognitive-Consistency Based Model of Population Wide Attitude Change. In: Carmichael, T., Collins, A., Hadžikadić, M. (eds) Complex Adaptive Systems. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20309-2_2

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