Toxic behaviour facilitates echo chammber formation: An agent-based modelling simulation of science attitudes based on Spiral of Silence Theory

• Timothy F. Bainbridge ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tim.Bainbridge@csiro.au

  Affiliation Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3546-2008

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• Matthew Ryan,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Sinéad Golley,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Naomi Kakoschke,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-5668

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• Emily Brindal

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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