A moderate role for cognitive models in agent-based modeling of cultural change
Agent-based models are typically simple-agent models, in which agents behave according to simple rules, or complex-agent models which incorporate complex models of cognitive processes. I argue that there is also an important role for agent-based computer models in which agents incorporate cognitive models of moderate complexity. In particular, I argue that such models have the potential to bring insights from the humanistic study of culture into population-level modeling of cultural change.
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