The Indoctrination Game
Speaker
David Lagziel
Date
18/04/2023 - 12:30 - 11:00Add To Calendar
2023-04-18 11:00:00
2023-04-18 12:30:00
The Indoctrination Game
The indoctrination game is a complete-information contest over public opinion. The players exert costly effort to manifest their private opinions in public in order to control the discussion, so that the governing opinion is similar to theirs. Our analysis provides a theoretical foundation for the silent majority and vocal minority phenomena, i.e., we show that all moderate opinions remain mute in equilibrium while allowing extremists full control of the discussion. Moreover, we prove that elevated exposure to others' opinions increases the observed polarization among individuals. Using these results, we formulate a new non-Bayesian social-learning process for indoctrination.
Joint work with Lotem Ikan.
BIU Economics common room
אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Economics
Economics.Dept@mail.biu.ac.il
Asia/Jerusalem
public
Place
BIU Economics common room
Affiliation
Ben Gurion University
Abstract
The indoctrination game is a complete-information contest over public opinion. The players exert costly effort to manifest their private opinions in public in order to control the discussion, so that the governing opinion is similar to theirs. Our analysis provides a theoretical foundation for the silent majority and vocal minority phenomena, i.e., we show that all moderate opinions remain mute in equilibrium while allowing extremists full control of the discussion. Moreover, we prove that elevated exposure to others' opinions increases the observed polarization among individuals. Using these results, we formulate a new non-Bayesian social-learning process for indoctrination.
Joint work with Lotem Ikan.
Last Updated Date : 16/04/2023
