Fig. 5
From: The desire to avoid cognitive dissonance drives community formation in a social network model
Sum of the link weights in the social network. We show the aggregated link weights, given by \(W=\sum _{ij}w_{ij}\) after convergence, as a function of the dissonance penalty d. The symbols represent a standard box plot over 100 runs for each parameter setting according to d, and the median values are connected by a continuous curve. The three panels correspond to different TCA functions as indicated in the panel titles. Close to \(d=2\), W starts to decrease rapidly in all cases, indicating the disappearance of social links in the network. However, depending on the TCA function, the remaining number of links can vary from around half of all links to a few hundred. For higher d values, this effect decreases, and the end states remain more similar to the original fully connected network.
