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Title: |
The Dangers Of Ethnocentrism |
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Authors: |
Giangiacomo Bravo |
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(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited
by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-8-1 28th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia,
Italy, May 27th – 30th,
2014 |
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Giangiacomo Bravo (2014). The Dangers Of Ethnocentrism, ECMS 2014
Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0718 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0718 |
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Abstract: |
Humans often alter their
behavior depending on the opponent’s group membership, with positive (e.g.,
support of same-group members) or negative (e.g., stereotyping, oppression, genocide)
consequences. An influential model developed by Hammond and Axelrod
highlighted the emergence of macro-level “ethnocentric cooperation” from the aggregation
of micro-level interactions based on arbitrary tags signaling group
membership. In this paper, we replicated this model and extended it to allow
a wider array of possible agents’ behaviors, including the possibility of harming
others. This allowed us to check whether and under which conditions
xenophobia can emerge beside or in alternative to ethnocentrism. |
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