Modeling Cultural Transmission of Rituals in Silico : The
Advantages and Pitfalls of Agent-Based vs. System Dynamics
Models

J 2018

Modeling Cultural Transmission of Rituals in Silico : The Advantages and Pitfalls of Agent-Based vs. System Dynamics Models

KAŠE, Vojtěch, Tomáš HAMPEJS and Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

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

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

MUNI/M/1867/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Generativní historiografie antického Středomoří: Modelování a simulace dynamiky šíření náboženských představ a forem chování (Acronym: GEHIR)

Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects

Citovat

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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