Agent_Zero · Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science by Epstein, Joshua M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction

Motivation

Generate Social Dynamics A Core Target

The Model Components Model Overview

Skeletal Equation Specific Components

Organization

Part I: Mathematical Model Part II: Agent-Based Model Part III: Extensions Replicability and Research Resources on the Princeton University Press Website Part IV: Future Research and Conclusions

Part I. Mathematical Model

I.1. The Passions: Fear Conditioning

Fear Circuitry and the Perils of Fitness Nomenclature of Conditioning The Rescorla-Wagner Model Social Examples Fear Extinction

I.2. Reason: The Cognitive Component I.3. The Social Component

Simple Version of the Core Target Examples of Fear Contagion Mechanisms of Fear Contagion Conformist Empirical Estimates Generalizing Rescorla-Wagner The Central Case Tolstoy: The First Agent Modeler A Mathematical Aside on Social Norms as Vector Fields Extinction of Majorities

I.4. Interim Conclusions

Part II. Agent-Based Computational Model

Affective Component “Rational” Component Social Component Action Pseudocode II.1. Computational Parables

Part III. Extensions

III.1. Endogenous Destructive Radius III.2. Age And Impulse Control III.3. Fight Vs. Flight

Case 1: Fight Case 2: Flight Capital Flight

III.4. Replicating The Latané-Darley Experiment

Threshold Imputation The Dialogue

III.5. Memory III.6. Couplings: Entanglement Of Passion And Reason

Mathematical Treatment

III.7. Endogenous Dynamics Of Connection Strength

Affective Homophily General Setup Agent-Based Model: Nonequlibrium Dynamics

III.8. Growing The 2011 Arab Spring III.9. Jury Processes

Phase 1. Public Phase Phase 2. Courtroom Trial Phase Phase 3. Jury Phase

III.10. Emergent Dynamics Of Network Structure

Network Structure Dynamics as a Poincaré Map Relation to Literature

III.11. Multiple Social Levels

Agent_Zero as Witness to History

III.12. The 18th Brumaire Of Agent_Zero III.13. Introduction Of Prices And Seasonal Economic Cycles

Prices A Christmas Story

III.14. Spirals Of Mutual Escalation

Part IV. Future Research and Conclusion

IV.1. Future Research IV.2. Conclusion

Civil Violence Economics Health Behavior Psychology Jury Dynamics The Formation and Dynamics of Networks Mutual Escalation Dynamics Birth and Intergenerational Transmission

IV.3. Toward New Generative Foundations

Appendix I. Threshold Imputation Bounds Appendix II. Mathematica Code Appendix III. Agent_Zero NetLogo Source Code Appendix IV. Parameter Settings for Model Runs References Index