title: Dynamics of majority rule with differential latencies.
abstract: We investigate the dynamics of the majority-rule opinion formation model when voters experience differential latencies. With this extension, voters that just adopted an opinion go into a latent state during which they are excluded from the opinion formation process. The duration of the latent state depends on the opinion adopted by the voter. This leads to a bias toward consensus on the opinion that is associated with the shorter latency. We determine the exit probability and time to consensus for systems of N voters. Additionally, we derive an asymptotic characterization of the time to consensus by means of a continuum model.
authors.affiliation: IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, B-1050 Belgium. ascheidler@iridia.ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scheidler
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D011057:Politics; D011336:Probability; D013997:Time Factors