Introspective Agents in Opinion Formation Modeling to Predict Social Market

Salehi, Sajjad; Taghiyareh, Fattaneh

doi:10.1109/icwr.2019.8765268

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“…Furthermore, like electric charges, attraction can switch to repulsion instantly, thus, a simple spin model can explain market frictions and herding behavior in economics [104]. Moreover, a modification of the above idea, the Ising model, can account for decision-making in social and business situations [105][106][107][108].…”

Section: Psychological Spinmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is Psychological Spin? A Thermodynamic Framework for Emotions and Social Behavior

Deli

2023

Psych

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One of the most puzzling questions in neuroscience is the nature of emotions and their role in consciousness. The brain’s significant energy investment in maintaining the resting state indicates its essential role as the ground state of consciousness, the source of the sense of self. Emotions, the brain’s homeostatic master regulators, continuously measure and motivate the recovery of the psychological equilibrium. Moreover, perception’s information-energy exchange with the environment gives rise to a closed thermodynamic cycle, the reversible Carnot engine. The Carnot cycle forms an exothermic process; low entropy and reversible resting state turn the focus to the past, causing regret and remorse. The endothermic reversed Carnot cycle creates a high entropy resting state with irreversible activations generating novelty and intellect. We propose that the cycle’s direction represents psychological spin, where the endothermic cycle’s energy accumulation forms up-spin, and the energy-wasting exothermic cycle represents down-spin. Psychological spin corresponds to attitude, the determining factor in cognitive function and social life. By applying the Pauli exclusion principle for consciousness, we can explain the need for personal space and the formation of hierarchical social structures and animals’ territorial needs. Improving intuition about the brain’s intelligent computations may allow new treatments for mental diseases and novel applications in robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Section: Psychological Spinmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is Psychological Spin? A Thermodynamic Framework for Emotions and Social Behavior

Deli

2023

Psych

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“…Entropic effects slow the flows on the task-specific activations serving as a principal enabling a link between neural activity and behavior. The evoked cycle’s state vector represents the directionality and size of attitude [ 8 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 ].…”

Section: Considerations Of Entropymentioning

confidence: 99%

How the Brain Becomes the Mind: Can Thermodynamics Explain the Emergence and Nature of Emotions?

Deli

Peters

Kisvárday

2022

Entropy

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The neural systems’ electric activities are fundamental for the phenomenology of consciousness. Sensory perception triggers an information/energy exchange with the environment, but the brain’s recurrent activations maintain a resting state with constant parameters. Therefore, perception forms a closed thermodynamic cycle. In physics, the Carnot engine is an ideal thermodynamic cycle that converts heat from a hot reservoir into work, or inversely, requires work to transfer heat from a low- to a high-temperature reservoir (the reversed Carnot cycle). We analyze the high entropy brain by the endothermic reversed Carnot cycle. Its irreversible activations provide temporal directionality for future orientation. A flexible transfer between neural states inspires openness and creativity. In contrast, the low entropy resting state parallels reversible activations, which impose past focus via repetitive thinking, remorse, and regret. The exothermic Carnot cycle degrades mental energy. Therefore, the brain’s energy/information balance formulates motivation, sensed as position or negative emotions. Our work provides an analytical perspective of positive and negative emotions and spontaneous behavior from the free energy principle. Furthermore, electrical activities, thoughts, and beliefs lend themselves to a temporal organization, an orthogonal condition to physical systems. Here, we suggest that an experimental validation of the thermodynamic origin of emotions might inspire better treatment options for mental diseases.

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“…Moreover, there are other studies using the opinion dynamics models research marketing. Taghiyareh's team studied this issue from different aspects (Nazemian and Taghiyareh 2012;Salehi and Taghiyareh 2014;Vadoodparast et al 2014;Vadoodparast and Taghiyareh 2015;Salehi and Taghiyareh 2019). Günther et al (2011) proposed an agent-based simulation method to support managers in marketing activities, and illustrated the method by taking the new product diffusion of a novel biomass fuel as an example.…”

Section: Marketingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

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Opinion dynamics is an opinion evolution process of a group of agents, where the final opinion distribution tends to three stable states: consensus, polarization, and fragmentation. At present, the opinion dynamics models have been extensively studied in differrent fields. This paper provides a review of opinion dynamics in finance and business, such as, finance, marketing, e-commerce, politics, and group decision making. Furthermore, identified research challenges have been proposed to promote the future research of this topic.

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Introspective Agents in Opinion Formation Modeling to Predict Social Market

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

What Is Psychological Spin? A Thermodynamic Framework for Emotions and Social Behavior

What Is Psychological Spin? A Thermodynamic Framework for Emotions and Social Behavior

How the Brain Becomes the Mind: Can Thermodynamics Explain the Emergence and Nature of Emotions?

Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

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