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We analyze from a semi-formal perspective the grounding model of cultural transmission, a social psychological theory that emphasizes the role of everyday joint activities in the transmission of cultural information. The model postulates that cultural transmission during joint activities depends on the context of the activity and the common ground that participants perceive. We build on a framework of intelligent agents that are able to engage in joint activities and integrate the process of communication as described by the grounding model of cultural transmission. We rely on stereotypes as a type of cultural information to illustrate how our model contributes to bridging the gap between micro- and macro-levels in research on cultural dynamics.
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Note that while our formalism is not an attempt at describing the production of low-level utterances, we artificially construct dialogues whose utterances do fit the abstract level of mental alignment we address here.
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We disregard the actual communication language and its formal semantics here to facilitate comprehensibility.
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We omit here any information that is not relevant for our discussion, for example, that Gary is playing for Alice’s club.
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Pfau, J., Kashima, Y., Sonenberg, L. (2014). Towards Agent-Based Models of Cultural Dynamics: A Case of Stereotypes. In: Dignum, V., Dignum, F. (eds) Perspectives on Culture and Agent-based Simulations. Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01952-9_8
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