Miller and Cupchik - Agent Based Modeling of Emotional Selection in Urb.pdf (1.43 MB)
Agent Based Modeling of Emotional Selection in Urban Legends
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posted on 2016-06-10, 15:26 authored by Ian D. MillerIan D. Miller, Gerald C. CupchikPrevious research has found that Urban Legends are selectively received and transmitted based upon emotional selection. We first replicate this work using Agent Based Modeling (n=80), then scale our simulation to n=16,000. We demonstrate viral retransmission of Urban Legends among Agents performing emotional selection under network conditions.