Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics

Model Settings

Model: Agents N: 100 Confidence ε: 0.25 Convergence μ (Deffuant): 0.5

Status

Step0

Clusters—

Polarization σ—

Converged?No

Bounded confidence: agents only interact if |x_i - x_j| < ε. Deffuant: random pairwise meetings; x ← x ± μ(y-x). HK: simultaneous update to average of all within ε. Small ε fragments society into polarized clusters; large ε drives consensus. The threshold ε ≈ 0.3 is a critical boundary.