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Are Collectivistic Cultures More Prone to Rapid Transformation? Computational Models of Cross-Cultural Differences, Social Network Structure, Dynamic Social Influence, and Cultural Change.
Personality and Social Psychology Review ( IF 10.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-28 , DOI: 10.1177/1088868319855783
Michael Muthukrishna 1 , Mark Schaller 2
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Societies differ in susceptibility to social influence and in the social network structure through which individuals influence each other. What implications might these cultural differences have for changes in cultural norms over time? Using parameters informed by empirical evidence, we computationally modeled these cross-cultural differences to predict two forms of cultural change: consolidation of opinion majorities into stronger majorities, and the spread of initially unpopular beliefs. Results obtained from more than 300,000 computer simulations showed that in populations characterized by greater susceptibility to social influence, there was more rapid consolidation of majority opinion and also more successful spread of initially unpopular beliefs. Initially unpopular beliefs also spread more readily in populations characterized by less densely connected social networks. These computational outputs highlight the value of computational modeling methods as a means to specify hypotheses about specific ways in which cross-cultural differences may have long-term consequences for cultural stability and cultural change.

中文翻译:

集体文化是否更容易快速转变?跨文化差异,社会网络结构,动态社会影响力和文化变迁的计算模型。

社会对社会影响的敏感性和个人相互影响的社会网络结构不同。这些文化差异会对文化规范随时间变化产生什么影响?利用经验证据提供的参数,我们对这些跨文化差异进行了建模,以预测两种文化变化形式:将意见多数整合为更强的多数,以及最初不受欢迎的信仰的传播。从超过300,000台计算机模拟中获得的结果表明,在对社会影响的敏感性更高的人群中,多数意见的整合更加迅速,最初不受欢迎的信仰也得到了更成功的传播。最初,不受欢迎的信仰也更容易在以社交网络不那么紧密为特征的人群中传播。这些计算输出强调了计算建模方法的价值,该方法可用来指定有关跨文化差异可能对文化稳定和文化变革产生长期影响的特定方式的假设。
更新日期:2020-04-21
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