IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijmpcx/v34y2023i06ns0129183123500833.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How emotion type and intensity affect rumor spreading

Author

Listed:
  • Yanli Li

    (College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, P. R. China2School of Cultural Management, Communication University of China, Nanjing 211172, P. R. China)

  • Jing Ma

    (College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, P. R. China)

  • Fanshu Fang

    (College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, P. R. China)

  • Yunjie Jiang

    (School of Health Policy and Management, Institute of Healthy Jiangsu Development, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, P. R. China)

Abstract

The implications and contagion effect of emotion cannot be ignored in rumor spreading. This paper sheds light on how decision makers’ (DMs) emotion type and intensity affect rumor spreading. Based on the rank-dependent expected utility (RDEU) and evolutionary game theory (EGT), we construct an evolutionary game model between rumormongers (RMs) and managers (Ms) by considering emotions. We use MATLAB to simulate and reveal the influencing mechanism of DMs’ emotion type and intensity on rumor spreading. The results indicate that the DMs’ strategy choice is not only affected by their own emotion preference and intensity, but also by the other players in rumor spreading. Moreover, pessimism has a more significant influence than optimism on the stability of the evolutionary game, Ms’ emotion is more sensitive to the game results than RMs’ emotion and the emotion intensity is proportional to the evolution speed. More significantly, some earthshaking emotional thresholds are found, which can be used to predict RMs’ behavior, help Ms gain critical time to deal with rumors, and avoid the Tacitus Trap crisis. Furthermore, the evolution results fall into five categories: risk, opportunity, ideal, security and hostility. The results of this work can benefit Ms’ public governance.

Suggested Citation

  • Yanli Li & Jing Ma & Fanshu Fang & Yunjie Jiang, 2023. "How emotion type and intensity affect rumor spreading," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 34(06), pages 1-16, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:34:y:2023:i:06:n:s0129183123500833
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183123500833
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129183123500833
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0129183123500833?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:34:y:2023:i:06:n:s0129183123500833. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpc/ijmpc.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.