Trust in society: A stochastic compartmental model
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| author | Meylahn, Benedikt Valentin De Turck, Koen Mandjes, Michel |
| author_facet | Meylahn, Benedikt Valentin De Turck, Koen Mandjes, Michel |
| contents | This paper studies a novel stochastic compartmental model that describes the dynamics of trust in society. The population is split into three compartments representing levels of trust in society: trusters, skeptics and doubters. The focus lies on assessing the long-term dynamics, under `bounded confidence' i.e., trusters and doubters do not communicate). We state and classify the stationary points of the system's mean behavior. We find that an increase in life-expectancy, and a greater population may increase the proportion of individuals who lose their trust completely. In addition, the relationship between the rate at which doubters convince skeptics to join their cause and the expected number of doubters is not monotonic -- it does not always help to be more convincing to ensure the survival of your group. We numerically illustrate the workings of our analysis. Because the study of stochastic compartmental models for social dynamics is not common, we in particular shed light on the limitations of deterministic compartmental models.
In our experiments we make use of fluid and diffusion approximation techniques as well as Gillespie simulation. |
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| spellingShingle | Trust in society: A stochastic compartmental model Meylahn, Benedikt Valentin De Turck, Koen Mandjes, Michel Physics and Society Probability 91D99, 60J28, 91D10 J.4 This paper studies a novel stochastic compartmental model that describes the dynamics of trust in society. The population is split into three compartments representing levels of trust in society: trusters, skeptics and doubters. The focus lies on assessing the long-term dynamics, under `bounded confidence' i.e., trusters and doubters do not communicate). We state and classify the stationary points of the system's mean behavior. We find that an increase in life-expectancy, and a greater population may increase the proportion of individuals who lose their trust completely. In addition, the relationship between the rate at which doubters convince skeptics to join their cause and the expected number of doubters is not monotonic -- it does not always help to be more convincing to ensure the survival of your group. We numerically illustrate the workings of our analysis. Because the study of stochastic compartmental models for social dynamics is not common, we in particular shed light on the limitations of deterministic compartmental models. In our experiments we make use of fluid and diffusion approximation techniques as well as Gillespie simulation. |
| title | Trust in society: A stochastic compartmental model |
| topic | Physics and Society Probability 91D99, 60J28, 91D10 J.4 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12686 |