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Phase transition from egalitarian to hierarchical societies driven by competition between cognitive and social constraints
Nestor Caticha, Rafael Calsaverini, Renato Vicente
Empirical evidence suggests that social structure may have changed from hierarchical to egalitarian and back along the evolutionary line of humans. We model a society subject to co…
For whom will the Bayesian agents vote?
Nestor Caticha, Jonatas Cesar, Renato Vicente
Within an agent-based model where moral classifications are socially learned, we ask if a population of agents behaves in a way that may be compared with conservative or liberal po…
Moral foundations in an interacting neural networks society
Renato Vicente, Alex Susemihl, João Pedro Jericó +1
The moral foundations theory supports that people, across cultures, tend to consider a small number of dimensions when classifying issues on a moral basis. The data also show that…
Agent-based Social Psychology: from Neurocognitive Processes to Social Data
Nestor Caticha, Renato Vicente
Moral Foundation Theory states that groups of different observers may rely on partially dissimilar sets of moral foundations, thereby reaching different moral valuations. The use o…
Opinion Dynamics of Learning Agents: Does Seeking Consensus Lead to Disagreement?
Renato Vicente, Andre C. R. Martins, Nestor Caticha
We study opinion dynamics in a population of interacting adaptive agents voting on a set of complex multidimensional issues. We consider agents which can classify issues into for o…
An Opinion Dynamics Model for the Diffusion of Innovations
Andre C. R. Martins, Carlos de B. Pereira, Renato Vicente
We study the dynamics of the adoption of new products by agents with continuous opinions and discrete actions (CODA). The model is such that the refusal in adopting a new idea or p…