Agent-Based Modeling: A New Approach for Theory Building in Social Psychology

By Eliot R. Smith, Frederica R. Conrey. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2007

400 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Social Psychology

1. Daniel Balliet
2. N. Branscombe
3. P. V. van Lange
4. M. Verkuyten
5. Katherine J. Reynolds
6. J. Turner
7. Junhui Wu
8. Emina Subašić

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. V. van Lange
2. Daniel Balliet
3. N. Branscombe
4. Junhui Wu
5. M. Verkuyten
6. J. Turner
7. Katherine J. Reynolds
8. Emina Subašić

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. P. V. van Lange
2. Daniel Balliet
3. Junhui Wu

Citations in the corpus

• Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach to understanding the mind and behaviour (2010, methodology): “One of the main obstacles or blockages to these ideas is referred to as the ‘boxology’ model of encoding, memory and retrieval (Smith & Conrey, 2007; Smith & Semin, 2004).”
• Customer-to-Customer Interactions: Broadening the Scope of Word of Mouth Research (2010, neutral): “Agentbased models are increasingly used across the social sciences (Smith and Conrey, 2007; Tesfatsion 2003) and specifically used in the marketing literature to understand how C2C interactions drive aggregate market dynamics (Delre et al. 2007; Garcia 2005; Goldenberg et al. 2007; Libai, Muller,…”
• Complex dynamical systems in social and personality psychology: theory, modeling, and analysis (2014, neutral): “Because agent-based models do, they allow a researcher to see how novel phenomena may emerge as a consequence of the interdependencies among agents (Smith & Conrey, 2007).”
• Models Are Stupid, and We Need More of Them (2017, neutral): “(Lazer & Friedman, 2007) Despite numerous efforts extolling the virtues of formal modeling (Epstein, 2008; Schank, 2001; Smith & Conrey, 2007; Marewski & Olsson, 2009; Farrell & Lewandowsky, 2010; Weinhardt & Vancouver, 2012; Smaldino, Calanchini, & Pickett, 2015), there remains widespread…”
• Reputation, Gossip, and Human Cooperation (2016, background): “This process is repeated for many generations ( for a review see Rand & Nowak, 2013; Smith & Conrey, 2007).”
• Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models - A review (2017, background): “Studies from cognitive sciences, arti fi cial intelligence and social psychology show promising attempts in this regard (see Smith and Conrey, 2007; Richetin et al., 2010; Edmonds and Meyer, 2013; Kennedy, 2012).”