Agent-based modeling is a long-standing but underused method that allows researchers to
simulate artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models …

The article describes the current status and potential directions of development of agent-
based models of social opinion dynamics. Despite extensive effort, the models achieve, at …

The social identity theory proposed by Tajfel et al. provides insight into how group
membership and self-categorization cause intergroup prejudice and discrimination, finally …

Agent-based models are versatile tools for studying how societal opinion change, including
political polarization and cultural diffusion, emerges from individual behavior. This study …

The world is grappling with emerging, urgent, large-scale problems, such as climate change,
pollution, biodiversity loss, and pandemics, which demand immediate and coordinated …

When construction projects are halted or slowed by conflicts with stakeholders, they have
lost their social license. Social licenses are granted by stakeholder networks, which include …

As coolness is often associated with status elevation and socially desirable valuation,
understanding what entails coolness may prove useful in a myriad of contexts. In this study …

Although rapid social change reflects each society's unique combination of myriad social,
historical, political, and economic factors, we argue that the defining features of such change …

In contrast to natural phenomena, such as extreme weather, accidents, disasters, and public
health emergencies, labor strikes are human-induced emergent circumstances arising from …

In this work we consider the presence of contrarian agents in discrete 3-state kinetic
exchange opinion models. The contrarians are individuals that adopt the choice opposite to …