TY - GEN
T1 - Developing and calibrating an ABM of the property listing task
AU - Canessa, Enrique
AU - Chaigneau, Sergio E.
AU - Barra, Carlos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ECMS Lars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Conceptual Agreement Theory
KW - Intersubjective variability
KW - Property listing task
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U2 - 10.7148/2018-0013
DO - 10.7148/2018-0013
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062825678
T3 - Proceedings - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS
SP - 13
EP - 19
BT - Proceedings - 32nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2018
A2 - Nolle, Lars
A2 - Burger, Alexandra
A2 - Tholen, Christoph
A2 - Werner, Jens
A2 - Wellhausen, Jens
PB - European Council for Modelling and Simulation
T2 - 32nd Annual Conference of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2018
Y2 - 22 May 2018 through 25 May 2018
ER -