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spinson

noun

Etymology

Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person. Based on the idea that a person's opinion can be likened to the up or down spin of a quark. Coined by Piotr Nyczka and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron in 2013.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. compounded as spinson — “spin + person”

Definitions

  1. An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite…

    An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, "for" or "against").

    • The evolution of a spinson’s opinion is governed by two different processes: (i) independence and (ii) social and mass-media influence.
    • The model proposed in this work belongs to the ‘rich feature agent’ or ‘complex agent’ categories, in contrast to the simplified ‘spinson’ models.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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