We consider the Zaller model of public opinion, known as the Receipt-Accept-Sample model [1]. Recently the model was reformulated [2] in a 2-dimensional space of political issues, in conceptual accordance with the Deffuant theory [3]. In this formulation, the only parameter was the largest possible ideological distance a, which can be made by a citizen in one mental step. Main result was that citizens with small a are more prone to extremal opinions. In accordance to the initial formulation by Zaller, the model dealt with citizens subjected to a stream of political news, but an interaction between citizens was not taken into account. Here we generalize the model as to include this interaction within a model social network.

[1] J. R. Zaller, The Nature and Origin of Mass Opinion, Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1992.

[2] K. Kułakowski, Physica A 388 (2009) 469.

[3] G. Deffuant, D. Neau, F. Amblard, G. Weisbuch, Adv. Complex Systems 3 (2000) 87.

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