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rev_number: 7
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Giardini, Francesca
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_name: Conte, Rosaria
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creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
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title: Understanding opinions. A cognitive and formal account
ispublished: submitted
subjects: QA75
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
monograph_type: working_paper
keywords: opinion dynamics; social influence; gossip; media; agenda-setting
abstract: The study of opinions, their formation and change, is one of the defining topics addressed by social psychology, but in recent years other disciplines, as computer science and complexity, have addressed this challenge. Despite the flourishing of different models and theories in both fields, several key questions still remain unanswered. The aim of this paper is to challenge the current theories on opinion by putting forward a cognitively grounded model where opinions are described as specific mental representations whose main properties are put forward. A comparison with reputation will be also presented. 
date: 2011
date_type: published
number:  
publisher: ArXiv
pages: 15
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
official_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4221
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.4221v1.pdf
citation:   Giardini, Francesca and Quattrociocchi, Walter and Conte, Rosaria  Understanding opinions. A cognitive and formal account.  Working Paper  # /2011    ArXiv       (Submitted)