Learning to Be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation

This paper extends the literature on the evolution of norms with an agent-based model capturing a phenomenon that has been essentially ignored, namely that individual thought--or computing--is often inversely related to the strength of a social norm. Once a norm is entrenched, we conform thoughtless...

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Published in:Computational economics 2001-08, Vol.18 (1), p.9-24
Main Author: Epstein, Joshua M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agency
Agents
Behavior
Computation
Computer science
Conformity
Economics
Equilibrium
Expected utility
Feedback
Global local relationship
Individuals
Management science
Mathematical economics
Mathematical models
Norms
Social dynamics
Social norms
Studies
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