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This paper describes an artificial society in which the simulated agents behave and interact based on a computational architecture informed by insights from one of the leading social psychological theories in the scientific study of secularization and religion: “credibility-enhancing displays” (or CREDs) theory. After introducing the key elements of the theory and outlining the computational architecture of our CRED model, we present some of our initial simulation results. These efforts are intended to advance the quest within social simulation for more authentic artificial societies and more plausible human-like agents with complex interactive and interpretative capacities.
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This research was completed while some of the authors were supported by grants from The Research Council of Norway (“Modeling Religion in Norway,” grant #250449) and the John Templeton Foundation (“Modeling Religion Project,” grant #43288).
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Puga-Gonzalez, I., Wildman, W.J., McCaffree, K., Cragun, R.T., Shults, F.L. (2021). InCREDulity in Artificial Societies. In: Ahrweiler, P., Neumann, M. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_8
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