Fig. 7
From: The desire to avoid cognitive dissonance drives community formation in a social network model
Distribution of the association strengths in the belief system of the agents. Panel a) refer to the results for parameters \(d=4\) and \(TCA: f(x)=x\) where the end state of the social network is composed of two large communities. Panel b) displays the association strength distribution of the belief systems at \(d=4\) and \(TCA: f(x)=x^4\), where the communities typically have only 3 to 6 members, and are completely or almost isolated from the rest of the network. Finally, panel c) presents the results for special simulations where only a single pair of agents were communicating at \(d=4\) and \(TCA: f(x)=x^4\). In the case of two agents and small communities, we can see that a large number of links disappear from the belief system. This means that the amount of topics agents will discuss during communication becomes smaller as well.
