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Materials for Summer School Computational Modeling of Cognition in a Social Context - 2024

Basics of agent-based modelling: the micro-macro gap

Recommended Readings:

• Agent-Based Modeling: A New Approach for Theory Building in Social Psychology. Eliot Smith and Frederica Conrey. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007.
• The matching hypothesis reexamined. Michael Kalick and Thomas Hamilton. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986.

Additional readings:

• Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences. Peter Hedström and Petri Ylikoski. Annual Review of Sociology, 2010.
• From factors to actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling. Michael Macy and Robert Willer. Annual Review of Sociology, 2002.

Modelling segregation: Schelling's model

Readings:

• Dynamic Models of Segregation. Thomas Schelling. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1971 (pages 143 to 166)
• The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life". Martin Gardner. Scientific American, 1970

Additional readings:

• The Schelling Model of Ethnic Residential Dynamics: Beyond the Integrated - Segregated Dichotomy of Patterns. Erez Hatnaa and Itzhak Benenson. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2012

Collective action: Granovetter's threshold model

Readings:

• Threshold Models of Collective Behavior. Mark Granovetter. American Journal of Sociology (1978)

Additional readings:

• The dynamics of emotions in online interaction. David Garcia, Arvid Kappas, Dennis Küster and Frank Schweitzer. Royal Society Open Science (2016)

Modelling cultures

Readings:

• The Dissemination of Culture: A Model with Local Convergence and Global Polarization. Robert Axelrod, Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(20), 1997

Additional readings:

• Measuring cultural dynamics through the Eurovision song contest. David Garcia and Dorian Tanase. Advances in Complex Systems, 16 (2013)

Opinion Dynamics

Readings:

• Mixing beliefs among interacting agents. Guillaume Deffuant, David Neau, Frederic Amblard and Gerard Weisbuch. Advances in Complex Systems (2000)

Additional readings:

• Tipping diffusivity in information accumulation systems: more links, less consensus. Jae K Shin and Jan Lorenz Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2010)