A Logical Model of the Dynamics of Peer Pressure

Authors:
Liang Zhen;Jeremy Seligman
Affiliations:
Institute of Logic and Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing, China;Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Venue:
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Following the general programme of [Jeremy Seligman, Fenrong Liu, and Patrick Girard. Logic in the community. In Mohua Banerjee and Anil Seth, editors, ICLA, volume 6521 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 178-188. Springer, 2011], we investigate the effect of social relationships on the dynamics of 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.