Agent-based modeling as a tool for studying social identity processes: The case of optimal distinctiveness theory

Social Cognition Social Identity and Intergroup Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-143

  Pickett, Cynthia L ^a   Smaldino, Paul E ^a   Sherman, Jeffrey W ^a   Schank, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84868567419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203816790     Document Type: Chapter

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