Minority Opinion Expression in the Presence of Perceived Majority Dominance

Minorities may remain silent due to the fear of isolation, as suggested by the Spiral of Silence theorem, but they can overcome their silence by grouping together, a phenomenon known as homophily. In cases where there is homophily in people’s rewiring actions, we observe total expression from both minorities and majorities, in contrast to societies without homophily. When people solely end their connections based on homophily but rewire randomly, we observe a minority opinions domination over the majority opinion. This study aims to investigate the dynamics of minority opinion domination and how it can be vulnerable to a single act of intervention, and the impact of agent characteristics to domination of both groups over each other.