Opinion dynamics: Statistical physics and beyond (opens in new tab)

arXiv:2507.11521v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Opinion dynamics, the study of how individual beliefs and collective public opinion evolve, is a fertile domain for applying statistical physics to complex social phenomena. Like physical systems, societies exhibit macroscopic regularities from localized interactions, leading to outcomes such as consensus or fragmentation. This field has grown significantly, attracting interdisciplinary methods and driven by a surge in large-scale beha...