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When opinion amplification is sufficiently low (here shown with pa = 0.05), influence functions can produce qualitatively different behavior. The left plot shows polarization as a result of linear influence, while the right plot shows that co-linear influence produces centering. The intermediate case with uniform influence is shown above in Figure 6.
