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Title: Modeling the Culture of Online Collaborative Groups with Affect Control Theory
We review Affect Control Theory (ACT), a mathematically formalized theory that integrates sociological insights about the symbolic construction of the social order with psychological knowledge about cognitive-affective mechanisms, as a basis for equipping computational agents in social simulations with a sense of sociality. After explaining theoretical foundations and describing previous applications of ACT at the dyadic and group level, we describe a case study from an ongoing research project aimed at understanding self-organized online collaboration in software development with ACT-based social simulations.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1723608
PAR ID:
10135900
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Advances in Social Simulation
Page Range / eLocation ID:
147-169
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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