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by Joshua M. Epstein
Agent_Zero
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
Parable 1: The Slaughter of Innocents through Dispositional Contagion
Parable 2: Agent_Zero Initiates: Leadership as Susceptibility to Dispositional Contagion
Run 3. Information Cuts Both Ways
Run 4. A Day in the Life of Agent_Zero: How Affect and Probability Can Change on Different Time Scales
Run 5. Lesion Studies
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
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