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Xenophobia based on a few attributes can impede society's cohesiveness
Alejandro Castro, Tuan Minh Pham, Ernesto Ortega, David Machado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18513

Xenophobia based on a few attributes can impede society's cohesiveness
Xenophobic interactions play a role as important as homophilic ones in shaping many dynamical processes on social networks, such as opinion formation, social balance, or epidemic spreading. In this paper, we use belief propagation and Monte Carlo simulations on tree-like signed graphs to predict that a sufficient propensity to xenophobia can impede a consensus that would otherwise emerge via a phase transition. As the strength of xenophobic interactions and the rationality of individuals with r…