This dilemma has been considered by Aguiar and Parravano in " Tolerating the Intolerant : Homophily, Intolerance, and Segregation in Social Balanced Networks ", modeling a community of individuals whose relationships are governed by a modified form of the Heider balance theory.
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Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution combines genetic drift ( random sampling error in the transmission of genes ) and natural selection to explain how multiple peaks on a fitness landscape could be occupied or how a population can achieve a higher peak on this landscape.
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Balance theory proposes that people seek cognitive consonance, between their views and the views of other people; thus, a religious person will suffer cognitive dissonance if his or her mate is not religious, thus motivating the religious person to self-handicap him-or herself to justify failure by rationalization; e . g . the university student who drinks the night before an examination, in response to his fear of poor academic performance.
