Cognitive modeling of socially transmitted affordances: A computational model of behavioral adoption tested against archival data from the Stanford Prison Experiment

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 302-337

  Nye, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Cognitive agents; Cognitive modeling; Memes; Social influence; Social learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; PRISONS;

AFFORDANCES; COGNITIVE AGENTS; COGNITIVE MODEL; MEMES; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL LEARNING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84905395570     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-013-9162-1     Document Type: Article

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