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Appendix_a – Supplemental material for Aggression, Conflict, and the Formation of Intimidating Group Reputation
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_a for Aggression, Conflict, and the Formation of Intimidating Group Reputation by Aron Szekely, Giulia Andrighetto, Nicolas Payette and Luca Tummolini in Social Psychology Quarterly</p
Appendix_b – Supplemental material for Aggression, Conflict, and the Formation of Intimidating Group Reputation
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_b for Aggression, Conflict, and the Formation of Intimidating Group Reputation by Aron Szekely, Giulia Andrighetto, Nicolas Payette and Luca Tummolini in Social Psychology Quarterly</p
sj-pdf-1-srd-10.1177_23780231221124556 – Supplemental material for How Norms Emerge from Conventions (and Change)
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-srd-10.1177_23780231221124556 for How Norms Emerge from Conventions (and Change) by Wojtek Przepiorka, Aron Szekely, Giulia Andrighetto, Andreas Diekmann and Luca Tummolini in Socius</p
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No full textA Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts
Full text linkArtefacts are usually understood in contrast with natural kinds and con- ceived as a unitary kind. Here we propose that there is in fact a variety of artefacts: from the more concrete to the more abstract ones. Moreover, not every artefact is able to fulfil its function thanks to its physical properties: Some artefacts, particularly what we call “institutional” artefacts, are symbolic in nature and require a system of rules to exist and to fulfil their function. Adopting a standard method to measure concep- tual representation (the property generation task), we have experimentally explored how humans conceptualise these different kinds of artefacts. Results indicate that institutional artefacts are typically opposed to social objects, while being more similar to standard artefacts, be they abstract or concrete
Agents Writing on Walls: Cognitive Stigmergy and Beyond
No full textOne of the fundamental factors driving the (self-)organisation of complex social systems — such as human organisations, animal societies, and multi-agent systems — is the interaction of individuals mediated by the environment: sharing a workspace, mutually perceiving each other's actions, and modifying a common environment are simple yet powerful mechanisms that enable social coordination. In this article, we recall and classify some of the main sorts of environment-based coordination, and discuss their impact on the engineering of complex socio-technical systems
The permeable limit. Constructing a shared intersubjective space in strategic interactions
No full textThis chapter focuses on the relational aspects of strategic interac7 tions. First, we highlight how some of the limitations of the classical theory of games can hinder a deeper understanding of two fundamental dimensions of the interpersonal relations, which are essential to our social epistemology: the mentalizing and empathizing processes. Secondly, we present the results of a series of experiments that stress the role of these two elements in the realm of strategic interactions. Finally, we argue that, by conceptualizing a hierar13 chy of higher order beliefs, psychological game theory seems to constitute a promising step forward towards the introduction of relational elements in the motivational structure of social agents
AmI Systems as Agent-Based Mirror Worlds: Bridging Humans and Agents through Stigmergy
Full text linkIn this chapter we introduce a vision of agent-oriented AmI systems that is extended to integrate ideas inspired by MirrorWorlds as introduced by Gelernter at the beginning of the eighties. In this view, AmI systems are actually a digital world mirroring but also augmenting the physical world with capabilities, services and functionalities.We then discuss the value of stigmergy as background reference conceptual framework to define and understand interactions occurring between the physical environments and its digital agent-based extension. The digital world augments the physical world so that traces left by humans acting in the physical world are represented in the digital one in order to be perceived by software agents living there and, viceversa, actions taken by software agents in the mirror can have an effect on the connected physical counterpart
Coordination and Trust in MAS Towards Intelligent Socio-technical Systems
Full text linkThe discipline of intelligent systems engineering is slowly moving towards its presumable final destination – that is, agent-oriented software engineering –, whereas multi-agent systems emerge as the apparent source for abstractions, technologies, and methods for intelligent socio-technical systems. There, fundamental notions such as trust and coordination play a key role in the modelling and engineering of multi-agent systems: yet, even though they both insist on the same conceptual space – the space of agent and MAS interaction – the intrinsic nature of their relationship has not been explored deeply enough till now.
We try and provide a brief look at the two concepts, as they developed in the literature in the last decades, then focus on some possible dimensions around which their understanding and definition could possibly be framed in a comprehensive and coherent way; finally, we discuss a case study of a blockchain-based infrastructure providing for trustworthy coordination
Intentional Compliance with Normative Systems
Full text linkI will address a challenge to mentalistic theories of norms, such as that developed by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rosaria Conte, namely, the existence of large normative systems, which successfully direct people’s thoughts and actions without being, in their entirety, mental contents of individual agents. I will argue that the cognitive attitudes and operations involved in compliance with normative systems are usually different from those involved in complying with isolated social norms. While isolated norms must be stored in the memory of the agents endorsing them, this does not happen with regard to large normative systems. In the latter case, the agent adopts a general policy-based intention to comply with the normative system as a whole, an intention that provides an abstract motivation for specific acts of compliance, once the agent has established that these acts are obligatory according the system. I will show how the endorsement of such a policy can be based on different individual attitudes, ranging from self-interest to altruistic, social or moral motivations. Finally, I will analyse how a normative system may both constrain powers and extend them, relying on this abstract motivation of its addressees
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