KAŠE, Vojtěch, Tomáš HAMPEJS and Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL. Modeling Cultural Transmission of Rituals in Silico : The Advantages and Pitfalls of Agent-Based vs. System Dynamics Models. Journal of Cognition and Culture. Brill, 2018, vol. 18, No 5, p. 483-507. ISSN 1567-7095. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340041.
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Original name Modeling Cultural Transmission of Rituals in Silico : The Advantages and Pitfalls of Agent-Based vs. System Dynamics Models
Authors KAŠE, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tomáš HAMPEJS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Journal of Cognition and Culture, Brill, 2018, 1567-7095.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105762
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340041
UT WoS 000456107600003
Keywords in English ritual; cultural transmission; social function; cognitive attraction; agent-based model; system dynamics model
Tags rivok, topvydavatel
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
This article introduces an agent-based and a system-dynamics model investigating the cultural transmission of frequent collective rituals. It focuses on social function and cognitive attraction as independently affecting transmission. The models focus on the historical context of early Christian meals, where various theoretically inspiring trends in cultural transmission of rituals can be observed. The primary purpose of the article is to contribute to theorizing about cultural transmission of rituals by suggesting a clear operationalization of their social function and cognitive attraction. Furthermore, the article challenges recent trends in the field by providing a theoretically feasible model for how, under certain conditions, cognitive attraction can influence the transmission to a relatively greater extent than social function. In the system dynamics model we reproduce the results of our agent-based model while putting some of our basic operational assumptions under scrutiny. We consider approaching social function and cognitive attraction in isolation as a preliminary but necessary step in the process of creating more complex models of the cultural selection of rituals, where the two aspects will be combined to produce ritual forms with greater correspondence to real-world religious rituals.
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MUNI/M/1867/2014, interní kód MUName: Generativní historiografie antického Středomoří: Modelování a simulace dynamiky šíření náboženských představ a forem chování (Acronym: GEHIR)
Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects
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