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Experimentally Grounded Social Simulation Models: The "How, Why and For What" of Mixing Experimental and Computational Methods Lecturers

This workshop aims to introduce research that combines laboratory experiments and social simulation models. The combination can optimize the strengths and reduce the weaknesses of each method. Experiments can provide simulations with controlled data on human behavior and interactions on a small scale, helping to ground simulations. Simulations can then generalize experimental findings by testing behaviors in large-scale social structures. The workshop will discuss examples of this research combining experiments and simulations on social norms and networks, and insights into practical methods.

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Experimentally Grounded Social Simulation Models: The "How, Why and For What" of Mixing Experimental and Computational Methods Lecturers

This workshop aims to introduce research that combines laboratory experiments and social simulation models. The combination can optimize the strengths and reduce the weaknesses of each method. Experiments can provide simulations with controlled data on human behavior and interactions on a small scale, helping to ground simulations. Simulations can then generalize experimental findings by testing behaviors in large-scale social structures. The workshop will discuss examples of this research combining experiments and simulations on social norms and networks, and insights into practical methods.

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Experimentally Grounded Social Simulation Models:

The ”How, Why and For What"


of Mixing Experimental and Computational Methods

Lecturers
 Flaminio Squazzoni
Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, squazzon@eco.unibs.it
 Giangiacomo Bravo
School of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, giangiacomo.bravo@unito.it

Workshop description
This workshop aims to introduce cross-methodological research that integrates laboratory
experiments and social simulation and explain reasons, methods and purposes of this
combination. Cross-fertilization between these two methods can be beneficial to optimize
mutual strengths and reduce respective deficiencies. It is of paramount importance to base
social simulation on more realistic, empirical foundations and to strengthen theoretical
generalization of experimental findings. On the one hand, experimental research can provide
social simulation with well-controlled, solid data on human behaviour and interaction on a
small scale. On the other hand, social simulation can help to generalise experimental findings
by testing implications of experimentally observed behaviour in large-scale and complex
social structures. Examples of this type of research on social norms and networks and
methodological/practical insights are discussed (see Boero et al. 2010 and Bravo et al. 2012).

References
 Boero R., Bravo G., Castellani M., Squazzoni F. (2010) Why bother with what others tell
you? An experimental data-driven agent-based model. Journal of Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation 13 (3) 6: <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/13/3/6.html>
 Bravo G, Squazzoni F., Boero R. (2012) Trust and Partner Selection in Social Networks: An
Experimentally Grounded Model, Social Networks, 2012, 34(4), pp. 481-492

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