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Is the Person-Situation Debate Important for Agent-Based Modeling and Vice-Versa?

Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron, Janusz Szwabiński, Rafał Weron

PLoS ONE · 2014 · 47 citations · 32 references

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Abstract

This sensitivity to modeling assumptions has far reaching consequences also beyond opinion dynamics, since agent-based models are becoming a popular tool among economists and policy makers and are often used as substitutes of real social experiments.

References

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Journal of personality and social psychology

Jane Armstrong · International Journal of Forecasting · 1988 · 10.6K citations

Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Sciences +4

Threshold Models of Collective Behavior

Mark Granovetter · American Journal of Sociology · 1978 · 5.9K citations · Full text

Dynamic models of segregation†

Thomas C. Schelling · Journal of Mathematical Sociology · 1971 · 4.8K citations

Segregation Results, Coexistence, Collective Action Problem +14

Refining the theory of basic individual values.

Shalom H. Schwartz, Jan Cieciuch, Michele Vecchione et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2012 · 2.5K citations

Refined Values, Social Identity, Self-efficacy Theory +14

Opinions and Social Pressure

Solomon E. Asch · Scientific American · 1955 · 2.2K citations

Majority Influence, Social Identity, Social Bias +8