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Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems
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Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

by Paul K. Davis, Angela O'Mahony, Jonathan Pfautz
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
992 pages
31h 53m
English
Wiley
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13 Integrating Computational Modeling and Experiments: Toward a More Unified Theory of Social Influence

Michael Gabbay1

Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA

Introduction

Social influence is a central element of many behavioral areas, such as public opinion change, radicalization, and group decision‐making – all of concern to public policy. It affects the process by which people form attitudes toward their governments, other population groups, or external actors. Group decision‐making applications span political, military, economic, and legal domains. If computational social science is to aid in understanding, anticipating, and shaping such real‐world contexts, then the development of accurate and broadly applicable models of social influence is essential. This chapter proposes that a deliberate and concerted integration of experimental investigation and computational modeling is needed to develop these models, an effort that will also advance the fundamental knowledge of social influence dynamics.

Within social psychology, social influence has largely been studied via the experimental testing of discrete theoretical hypotheses that express how a dependent variable responds to a change in an independent variable in qualitative language (e.g. increases, decreases, inverted U‐shape). Quantitative reasoning is often employed in the rationale for theoretical propositions, and, to a much lesser extent, formal or computational models ...

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