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Heider Balance in Human Networks
Recently, a continuous dynamics was proposed to simulate dynamics of
interpersonal relations in a society represented by a fully connected graph.
Final state of such a society was found to be identical with the so-called
Heider balance (HB), where the society is divided into two mutually hostile
groups. In the continuous model, a polarization of opinions was found in HB.
Here we demonstrate that the polarization occurs also in Barabasi-Albert
networks, where the Heider balance is not necessarily present. In the second
part of this work we demonstrate the results of our formalism, when applied to
reference examples: the Southern women and the Zachary club.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. Presented on 8th Granada Seminar on Computational
and Statistical Physics, Modeling Cooperative Behavior in the Social
Sciences, Granada, Spain, 7-11 February 200
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