Interpersonal communication

Pedagogy

Abandonment (legal)

Politics

Epistemology

Dynamics (music)

Philosophy

Ground truth

Political science

Artificial intelligence

Psychology

Statement (logic)

Post truth

Computer science

Social psychology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Significance Investigations of the conditions of truth wins in social groups present mixed findings and have not included a network science modeling of the opinion dynamics that alter individuals’ positions. This paper presents evidence that an attention to such dynamics substantially clarifies how truth wins. The findings of our experiments on groups of human subjects suggest that the mixed findings on truth wins in social groups can be integrated as special-case realizations of a general model of opinion dynamics on influence networks.

How truth wins in opinion dynamics along issue sequences