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Following the general programme of [2], we investigate the effect of social relationships on the dynamics of preference change within a community. Specifically, we are interested in the phenomenon of ‘peer pressure’, according to which a person’s preferences are changed in response to the preferences of a ‘peer group’. This involves both aggregation of preferences, to determine the group’s preferences and preference change. We propose a simple model of peer pressure which is still sufficiently non-trivial to display some interesting dynamics, and show how the stable configurations can be expressed logically.
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Liang, Z., Seligman, J.: The dynamics of peer pressure (2011), http://auckland.academia.edu/JeremySeligman/Papers/672669/
Seligman, J., Liu, F., Girard, P.: Logic in the community. In: Banerjee, M., Seth, A. (eds.) Logic and Its Applications. LNCS, vol. 6521, pp. 178–188. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
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Liang, Z., Seligman, J. (2011). The Dynamics of Peer Pressure. In: van Ditmarsch, H., Lang, J., Ju, S. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6953. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24130-7_32
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