Structural balance, a social psychological theory about the network structure of interpersonal appraisals, has attracted attention recently [1], [2], [3] in the ...

Aug 12, 2016 · In this article we argue that interpersonal influences originate from positive interpersonal appraisals and, in turn, adjust individuals' appraisals of others.

The Coevolution of Appraisal and Influence Networks Leads to Structural Balance. 2016. Jia, Peng;; Friedkin, Noah E;; Bullo, Francesco. Published Web Location.

In sociology, an appraisal structure, represented by a signed matrix or a signed network, describes an evaluative cognitive configuration among individuals.

We provide a mathematical formulation of the coevolutionary dynamics, characterize the invariant appraisal structures, and establish the convergence properties ...

Bullo. The Coevolution of Appraisal and Influence Networks leads to Structural Balance ... On the dynamics of influence networks via reflected appraisal ...

Co-authors ; The Coevolution of Appraisal and Influence Networks Leads to Structural Balance. P Jia, NE Friedkin, F Bullo. IEEE Transactions on Network Science ...

... The Coevolution of Appraisal and Influence Networks leads to Structural ... Bullo. On the dynamics of influence networks via reflected appraisal. In ...

In this paper, we study the open problem of how non-complete appraisal networks converge to structural balance while their graph topologies remain unchanged.

We show that by using two simple rules, node opinions evolve into opposing communities and structural balance naturally emerges. 1.1 Our Contribution In this ...