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    "pk": 29491,
    "title": "Stubborn extremism as a potential pathway to group polarization",
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    "abstract": "Group polarization is the widely-observed phenomenonin which the opinions held by members of a small groupbecome more extreme after the group discusses a topic.For example, conservative individuals become even moreconservative, while liberal individuals become even moreliberal. Social psychologists have offered competing ex-planations for this phenomenon. These typically re-quire questionable assumptions about human psychol-ogy. Here, we posit a more parsimonious explanation:the stubbornness of extreme opinions. Using agent-based modeling, we demonstrate that such “stubbornextremism” gives rise to group polarization, as well asother trends observed across the literature on polariza-tion. Our study revealed a further methodological prob-lem for the study of group polarization: reporting opin-ions as categories (e.g. on a Likert scale) inflates theobserved increase in opinion extremity. We concludewith a call for deeper integration of opinion dynamicsmodeling with the cognitive science of communicationand influence.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "opinion dynamics; polarization; social in-fluence; agent-based modeling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Social Inference",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gx1q3k8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Turner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Paul",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Smaldino",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Merced",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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