Multifractal behaviour of the interevent times in decision-making process when facing gender-based violence situations

Abstract

The application of physics in social spheres gives explanations to some collective phenomena as human decision-making processes. The aim of this work is to study this kind of process when facing gender-based violence situations. Personal data, decision made and time taken are obtained from a public experiment in which individuals confronted with this kind of situations have to decide if they would intervene or not. Experimental data are explained by analogy to the valley model through the study of the fractal behaviour of the interevent times. As multifractality is observed, social and personal factors seem to influence the decision-making process