Developing and calibrating an ABM of the property listing task

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Abstract

We present an Agent Based Model (ABM), which shows how subjects may perform the Property Listing Task (PLT), which is widely used across psychology. In the PLT, subjects list properties that describe concepts in their minds. This ABM views the PLT as a communicative process, by which agents list properties for a concept, so that they can achieve a given level of agreement among them, i.e. produce properties that are more or less the same among agents. Using Conceptual Agreement Theory (CAT), we model that agreement in the ABM and are able to derive functional forms that the ABM's outputs should follow. The results show that agents produce agreement curves that indeed match the stated functional forms and also reasonably follow the corresponding curves obtained from empirical data. Thus, the ABM can now be used to better understand the PLT and also be further developed to model how subjects may stop listing properties for a concept according to some criteria based on the achieved level of agreement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 32nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2018
EditorsLars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen
PublisherEuropean Council for Modelling and Simulation
Pages13-19
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780993244063
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event32nd Annual Conference of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2018 - Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Duration: 22 May 201825 May 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS
ISSN (Print)2522-2414

Conference

Conference32nd Annual Conference of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityWilhelmshaven
Period22/05/1825/05/18

Keywords

  • Agent-based modeling
  • Conceptual Agreement Theory
  • Intersubjective variability
  • Property listing task

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