Social Balance Theory

The result of the simulation can be seen in figure 3. In figure 3a, it is obvious that
the time consumed up to the balanced state is relatively fast (about 87 iterations), since
the changes in the dyadic relations (mutation in edge string) refer to the global balance
index. The result is also verified the social mitosis theory (Wang and Thorngate, 2003)
since there is one agent separated from the group in the balanced state, while the big
group consists of positive interpersonal relations totally.

1 separated from
group

(b)

Figure3

(a) the global balance index gets to the unity in balanced state.

(b) The change of dyadic interpersonal relations from initial state to the balanced state

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