What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation

D Anzola, C García-Díaz - International Journal of Social Research …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers have become increasingly interested in the potential use of agent-based
modelling for the prediction of social phenomena, motivated by the desire, first, to further …

The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms

JA Loughmiller-Cardinal, JS Cardinal - Societies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Do social norms really matter, or are they just behavioral idiosyncrasies that become
associated with a group? Social norms are generally considered as a collection of formal or …

[PDF][PDF] The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms. Societies 2023, 13, 111

JA Loughmiller-Cardinal, JS Cardinal - 2023 - researchgate.net
Do social norms really matter, or are they just behavioral idiosyncrasies that become
associated with a group? Social norms are generally considered as a collection of formal or …

Causality

G Manzo, L Sage - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Statisticians and social and computer scientists tend to approach causality and causal
inference with particular theories of causality in mind, and defend tools that are supposed to …