Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling, Networks, & Social Influence

Materials for the workshop, presented at the small group meeting Introducing Structure: Networks in Social Psychology, held Oct. 31st to Nov. 3rd, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.

This workshop targets a general audience, assuming no prior familiarity with modeling, social networks, or other topics. The workshop is broken into roughly five parts:

1. Introduction & Background
2. Agent-Based Modeling
3. Networks
4. Social Influence
5. Next Steps & Future Directions

Goals of the workshop

• Cultivate an awareness and an appreciation of the benefits of agent-based modeling and computational descriptions of social psychological phenomena
• Highlight the how's and why's of modeling social psychological phenomena
• Highlight classic examples of
• Provide some preliminary information regarding existing tools that facilitate agent-based modeling

In other words, the things you can acomplish when modeling social psychological phenomena.

Non-goals of the workshop

• Ability to create agent-based models without any further learning
• Encyclopedic knowledge of modeling environments

In other words, the nitty-gritty details of modeling social psychological phenomena.

Workshop Materials

Slides