Dynamic Attitude Fixing: A novel theory of opinion dynamics in social networks and its implications for computational propaganda in hybrid social networks (containing humans and bots)

Project Information

DAFINET

Grant agreement ID: 802421

DOI

10.3030/802421

Project closed

EC signature date 23 November 2018

Start date 1 December 2018

End date 30 November 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 925,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 925,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
Ireland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Using word embeddings to analyse audience effects and individual differences in parenting Subreddits

Author(s): Melody Sepahpour-Fard, Michael Quayle, Maria Schuld, Taha Yasseri
Published in: EPJ Data Science, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2193-1127
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00412-7

The psychometric house-of-mirrors: the effect of measurement distortions on agent-based models’ predictions

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Michael Quayle
Published in: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Issue 26, 2023, Page(s) 215-231, ISSN 1364-5579
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2137938

Pandemic threat and group cohesion: national identification in the wake of COVID-19 is associated with authoritarianism

Author(s): Paul J. Maher, Jenny Roth, Siobhán Griffin, Aoife Marie Foran, Sarah Jay, Cillian McHugh, Megan Ryan, Daragh Bradshaw, Michael Quayle, Orla T Muldoon
Published in: The Journal of Social Psychology, Issue 163, 2024, Page(s) 789-805, ISSN 0022-4545
Publisher: Heldref Publications
DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2021.2024122

Mapping Anti-Refugee Attitude Networks in the Classroom: Examining the Relationship Between Migrant Children’s Attitude Alignment and National Identification

Author(s): Elaine M. Smith, Alejandro Dinkelberg, Anca Minescu, Mike Quayle
Published in: Identity, 2024, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1528-3488
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2024.2424776

Dyadic Interaction Shapes Social Identity in the Axelrod Model Using Empirical Data

Author(s): Alejandro Dinkelberg, Pádraig MacCarron, Paul J. Maher, David JP O'Sullivan, Michael Quayle
Published in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 1460-7425
Publisher: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.4992

Deriving an Opinion Dynamics Model from Experimental Data

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Paul J. Maher, Caoimhe O'Reilly, Michael Quayle
Published in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Issue 25, 2022, ISSN 1460-7425
Publisher: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.4947

Multidimensional polarization dynamics in US election data in the long term (2012--2020) and in the 2020 election cycle

Author(s): Alejandro Dinkelberg, Caoimhe O'Reilly, Pádraig MacCarron, Paul Maher, Michael Quayle
Published in: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2021, ISSN 1529-7489
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/asap.12278

Assessing police topological efficiency in a major sting operation on the dark web

Author(s): Bruno Requião da Cunha, Pádraig MacCarron, Jean Fernando Passold, Luiz Walmocyr dos Santos, Kleber A. Oliveira, James P. Gleeson
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56704-4

Narrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity

Author(s): Thomas Gessey-Jones, Colm Connaughton, Robin Dunbar, Ralph Kenna, Pádraig MacCarron, Cathal O’Conchobhair, Joseph Yose
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/46, 2020, Page(s) 28582-28588, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006465117

Homophily dynamics outweigh network topology in an extended Axelrod’s Cultural Dissemination Model

Author(s): Alejandro Dinkelberg, Pádraig MacCarron, Paul J. Maher, Michael Quayle
Published in: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Issue 578, 2021, Page(s) 126086, ISSN 0378-4371
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126086

Psychological responses to jihadist terrorism: Exploring a small but significant opinion shift towards minority inclusion among French citizens in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks

Author(s): Adrian Lueders, Robin Wollast, Armelle Nugier, Serge Guimond
Published in: Political Psychology, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 113-131, ISSN 0162-895X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12916

Bottom-up populism: How relative deprivation and populist attitudes mobilize leaderless anti-government protest

Author(s): Adrian Lüders, Karolina Urbanska, Robin Wollast, Armelle Nugier, Serge Guimond
Published in: Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) 506-519, ISSN 2195-3325
Publisher: PsychOpen
DOI: 10.5964/jspp.7349

How Polarization Extends to New Topics: An Agent-Based Model Derived from Experimental Data

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Adrian Lueders, Paul J. Maher, Caoimhe O'Reilly, Michael Quayle
Published in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 1460-7425
Publisher: University of Surrey
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.5105

Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network‐modelling to research attitude‐identity relationships in polarized political contexts

Author(s): Adrian Lüders, Dino Carpentras, Michael Quayle
Published in: British Journal of Social Psychology, Issue 63, 2024, Page(s) 37-51, ISSN 0144-6665
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12665

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

Author(s): Adrian Lüders, Mike Quayle, Paul Maher, Ana‐Maria Bliuc, Pádraig MacCarron
Published in: European Journal of Social Psychology, 2024, ISSN 0046-2772
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.3022

Strategic attitude expressions as identity performance and identity creation in interaction

Author(s): Caoimhe O’Reilly, Shane Mannion, Paul J. Maher, Elaine M. Smith, Pádraig MacCarron, Michael Quayle
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00076-7

Generalized mean-field approximation for the Deffuant opinion dynamics model on networks

Author(s): Susan C. Fennell, Kevin Burke, Michael Quayle, James P. Gleeson
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 103/1, 2021, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Association
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.012314

Agreement threshold on Axelrod’s model of cultural dissemination

Author(s): Pádraig MacCarron, Paul J. Maher, Susan Fennell, Kevin Burke, James P. Gleeson, Kevin Durrheim, Michael Quayle
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 15/6, 2020, Page(s) e0233995, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233995

Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion‐based groups in the UK’s early COVID‐19 response phase

Author(s): Paul J. Maher, Pádraig MacCarron, Michael Quayle
Published in: British Journal of Social Psychology, 2020, ISSN 0144-6665
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12396

Sharing is caring: How sharing opinions online can connect people into groups and foster identification

Author(s): Caoimhe O'Reilly; Paul J. Maher; Adrian Lüders; Michael Quayle
Published in: Acta Psychologica, Issue 230, 2023, ISSN 0001-6918
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103751

Becoming “us” in digital spaces: How online users creatively and strategically exploit social media affordances to build up social identity

Author(s): Lueders, Adrian; Dinkelberg, Alejandro; QUAYLE, MICHAEL
Published in: Acta Psychologica, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0001-6918
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103643

The Transnational Patriot

Author(s): Alastair Nightingale, Orla Muldoon, Michael Quayle
Published in: European Psychologist, Issue 26/1, 2021, Page(s) 45-54, ISSN 1016-9040
Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000416

The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification

Author(s): Caoimhe O'Reilly, Paul J. Maher, Michael Quayle
Published in: British Journal of Social Psychology, 2024, ISSN 0144-6665
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12773

DETECTING OPINION-BASED GROUPS AND POLARIZATION IN SURVEY-BASED ATTITUDE NETWORKS AND ESTIMATING QUESTION RELEVANCE

Author(s): ALEJANDRO DINKELBERG, DAVID JP O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL QUAYLE, PÁDRAIG MACCARRON
Published in: Advances in Complex Systems, Issue 24, 2021, ISSN 0219-5259
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
DOI: 10.1142/s0219525921500065

Mapping the global opinion space to explain anti-vaccine attraction.

Author(s): Dino Carpentras; Adrian Lüders; Michael Quayle
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12(1), 2022, Page(s) 6188, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10069-3

Agent-based null models for examining experimental social interaction networks

Author(s): Susan C. Fennell; James P. Gleeson; Michael Quayle; Kevin Durrheim; Kevin Burke
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32295-z

Social identity emergence in attitude interactions and the identity strengthening effects of cumulative attitude agreement

Author(s): Caoimhe O'Reilly, Paul J. Maher, Elaine M. Smith, Pádraig MacCarron, Michael Quayle
Published in: European Journal of Social Psychology, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 97-117, ISSN 0046-2772
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.3000

Propagation of measurement error in opinion dynamics models: The case of the Deffuant model

Author(s): Dino Carpentras; Michael Quayle
Published in: Physica A, Issue 606, 2022, Page(s) 127993dynamics, ISSN 0378-4371
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.127993

Not our kind of crowd! How partisan bias distorts perceptions of political bots on Twitter (now X)

Author(s): Adrian Lüders, Stefan Reiss, Alejandro Dinkelberg, Pádraig MacCarron, Michael Quayle
Published in: British Journal of Social Psychology, 2024, ISSN 0144-6665
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12794

Response Item Network (ResIN): A network-based approach to explore attitude systems

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Adrian Lueders, Michael Quayle
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/uzdcg

Other (5)

Identifying opinion-based groups from survey data: a bipartite network approach

Author(s): MacCarron, Pádraig; Maher, Paul J.; Quayle, Michael
Published in: arXiv, 2020
Publisher: arXiv.org

A performative network theory of attitudes

Author(s): Michael Quayle
Published in: PsyArXiv, 2020
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mh4z8

The sensitivity of the Deffuant model to measurement error

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Michael Quayle
Published in: arXiv, 2021
Publisher: arXiv.org

A modelling methodology for social interaction experiments

Author(s): Fennell, Susan C.; Gleeson, James P.; Quayle, Michael; Durrheim, Kevin; Burke, Kevin
Published in: ArXiv, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: arXiv.org

A new degree of freedom for opinion dynamics models: the arbitrariness of scales

Author(s): Dino Carpentras, Alejandro Dinkelberg, Michael Quayle
Published in: arXiv, 2020
Publisher: arXiv.org

Conference proceedings (1)

Stereotypes and Audience Effects: An Analysis of r/Daddit, r/Mommit, and r/Parenting Using Topic Modelling

Author(s): Melody Sepahpour-Fard; Michael Quayle
Published in: WWW '22: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 2696–2706, ISBN 9781450390965
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3485447.3512138