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International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

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Incorporating Disgust as Disease-Avoidant Behavior in an Agent-Based Epidemic Model

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Kiesecker et al. demonstrated disgust behavior in nature in 1999, and further research has shown that humans also exhibit disgust as part of the “behavioral immune system” [5, 8]. We present preliminary results from an agent-based model incorporating disgust as disease-avoidant behavior, the SLIPR model (susceptible, latent, infectious, presenting, removed), a modification and extension of the traditional SEIR model (susceptible, exposed, infectious, removed). The SLIPR model restructures the compartments of the SEIR model to allow for a distinct period of infectiousness occurring prior to visible disease presentation and extends it by simulating disgust as disease-avoidant behavior. SLIPR suggests that, for specific values of parameters such as disgust magnitude and population density, this disease-avoidant behavior significantly affects the spread of disease.

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  1. University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 76203, USA

    Christopher R. Williams & Armin R. Mikler

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  1. University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA

    Kevin S. Xu

  2. Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    David Reitter

  3. Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Dongwon Lee

  4. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Nathaniel Osgood

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Williams, C.R., Mikler, A.R. (2016). Incorporating Disgust as Disease-Avoidant Behavior in an Agent-Based Epidemic Model. In: Xu, K., Reitter, D., Lee, D., Osgood, N. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9708. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39931-7_11

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