A note on temperature without energy - a social example

TL;DR

This paper introduces the idea of social temperature, using magnetic susceptibility from the Ising model to measure how often agents randomly change strategies in a social context.

Contribution

It proposes a novel analogy between magnetic susceptibility and social dynamics, defining social temperature without relying on energy concepts.

Findings

Social temperature correlates with the rate of strategy changes.

Magnetic susceptibility can quantify social randomness.

The approach bridges physics and social science concepts.

Abstract

The concept of magnetic susceptibility in the Ising model is used to identify the social temperature as the rate of random changes of strategy for a set of agents playing two different strategies.